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Agustín Markaide, CEO of the Eroski Group Mondragón Corporation, tells the National Retail Consumer Conference 2012 about the experience of co-operative buying groups in Europe.

Rodrigo Gouveia, Secretary-General of EuroCoop, gives the National Retail Consumer Conference 2012 an overview of consumer co-operation in Europe.

Listen to the second Co-operative Debate at Co-operatives 2010, proposed by The Co-operative Group Wales/Cymru Region, and read the original debate proposal.

Outcomes of the Social Partner Program (SPP) - December 2007.

A report from Co-operatives Europe evaluating its representativeness and the role of its member organizations in the social dialogue in the different EU countries. This fed into its strategic objectives for 2007-2010.

A summary of recommendations for governments, policymakers and social entrepreneurs in Brazil, Germany, India, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States, presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 2006.

Linklaters - with the assistance of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship (“Schwab”) and various Schwab “fellows” around the world - prepared this Report which analyses (and makes recommendations in respect of) various legal, regulatory and taxation issues relating to social entrepreneurship in six selected countries across a broad geographical and economic spectrum.

A compilation of case studies gathered as an international project between four federations of worker co-operatives (ICOM in the UK, Federlavoro e Servizi of Italy and FCTAC and FVECTA of Spain. Published in 1992.

A report into women in co-operatives in the EEC, although written with an acknowledged UK bias. Commissioned by ICOM in December 1985.

Written by Annie May.