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"en.20120313.17.2-349-000"2
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"British Conservatives are very supportive of the contribution cooperatives make to local communities. As Conservatives, we have a strong belief, for example, in the huge benefits of communities working together and indeed the invaluable work of the voluntary sector and the social economy. While we strongly believe in the completion of the single market and any effort to improve cross-border business activity, we have a number of concerns with the Statute for a European cooperative society. First, in addition to its complex and bureaucratic nature, most firms who choose to operate as a cooperative tend to be anchored within their own local community and not on a pan-European level. The purpose of a cooperative is, after all, to serve the members who participate directly in the democratic management of the firm. Secondly, an overwhelming majority of cooperatives are small businesses operating within national borders and therefore, there is very little advantage to or added value from a European Statute. Taking these concerns into account, along with a number of recommendations within this report for new measures at European level, including calls for a European Year of Social Economy, we have decided to abstain from this report."@en1
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