Meeting of the Social Economy Category on 14 March 2014

The   Social Economy Category    met on 14 March to discuss possible follow-up to the Strasbourg conference on Social Entrepreneurship which took place in January of this year. A presentation of the World Cooperative Monitor 2013 was given in addition to an exchange of views with a representative of the Entrepreneurship and Social Economy Unit of DG Enterprise. The meeting on 14 March also provided the opportunity to update members on recent developments in the Cooperative Sector and on the draft EESC Opinion on a Statute for a European Mutual Society.