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On 16 March the Spanish Congress of Deputies passed the Social Economy Act, with the backing of all political groups. Spain is the first country to legislate on this key sector of...

On 8 March the new Act governing European Cooperative Societies with their registered offices in Spain was published in the Official State Gazette. This Act will help intensify...

The current accounting regulations in force in Spain were adapted from the international accounting standards, better known as the IAS, adopted by the European Union and...

The Espriu Foundation and the business model represented by the institutions it comprises feature as a subject of study in the report «Sectors of the new economy 20+20», recently...

The Cooperatives Europe Board of Directors has appointed Klaus Niederländer as the new Director of Cooperatives Europe asbl and as the Regional Director for Europe of the...

The International Cooperative Alliance Board has appointed Mr. Charles Gould as the organization’s new Director General, taking over from Mr. Iain Macdonald, who has held this...

n 12 February, the President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, presided the groundbreaking ceremony for the future public hospital in Torrejón de Ardoz...

The cooperation agreement between Assistència Sanitària and the University of Barcelona (UB) will make it possible to foster new joint academic and research relations. The...

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 as the International Year of Co-operatives, highlighting their contribution to the socio-economic development of the...

On 13 October, a group of doctors and executives from the Unimed medical cooperatives in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, participated in a work day held at the Hospital de...

The presidents of Assistència Sanitària, Ignacio Orce, and FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, have signed a sponsorship agreement, making the health insurer the club’s Official Medical...

As a consequence of the renewal of half of the members of the Board of Directors undertaken in the XXXIII Lavinia General Assembly, as stipulated by the regulations and by means...