Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-13-Speech-2-340-312"
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"The vote on this own-initiative report gives us the chance to emphasise the need to plan and open a Commission initiative to re-launch the Statute for a European cooperative society as soon as possible. We have to see the adoption of this report as an incentive to take action in the shortest possible timeframe and not fail to grasp the important opportunity provided by the UN having declared 2012 to be the International Year of Cooperatives. The fact that only 17 cooperatives out of around 160 000 in Europe have signed up to the Statute shows the urgency of intervening to make the Statute more attractive, though without losing sight of its most important and positive aspects. The value of cooperatives in the European economy is common knowledge and, during our debate, it became clear just why cooperatives have managed to withstand the economic crisis better than other business types. It is therefore our duty to support them and to work vigorously and consistently to promote the European cooperative society as a positive framework for the development of European cooperatives."@en1
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