CECOP – CICOPA Europe is the European confederation of cooperatives and other employee-owned enterprises in industry and services. It groups national federations in 16 EU countries, which in turn affiliate approximately 50 000 enterprises in those sectors employing 1.5 million workers.

As a confederation, CECOP has a double mission of representation (mainly with the EU institutions, as well as other European-level organisations such as the European Trade Union Confederation, and towards other components of the cooperative movement and of the social Economy ) and networking (coordination of members’ European activities, definition of common strategies and positions, promotion of entrepreneurial development, data collection and processing, comparative sectoral legislation etc.).

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