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Social Economy and New Cooperatives create Jobs?

Dear friends, chairman, women and men in the audience.

As a women I'm proud to get the opportunity to share my experiences and values with you. I'm very pleased to be invited to make a contribution here at the COPAC Open Forum.

With a gender perspective I will concentrate on new needs, new areas of cooperation and employment. Maybe some of you participated on the conference in Bologna, 30th November and 1st December1998, "Cooperation and Entrepreneurship 2000", which was a good start for the work with a whitebook on cooperation within EU.

The Bologna conference provided an opportunity for wide?ranging discussions between representatives of the cooperatives in Europe. It realised also that the cooperative sector in Europe is highly diverse and complex, and that it has always been in state flux - particularly in the recent past. Legislation and structures are both constantly evolving, with new regional laws and laws on new types of cooperatives.

Comments or questions? Contact the COPAC Coordinator.
Posted: 19 July 2000