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CEPES celebrates the commitment reached yesterday by 23 EU ministers who support the social economy portfolios to promote the social economy business model in Europe. The agreements have been adopted in Paris at the first informal ministerial conference dedicated to this issue, organized by the French presidency of the Council of the European Union.

This is one of the statements made by Nicolas Schmit, Commissioner for Employment and Social Rights of the European Commission, during the third edition of the UfM Workshop 'Towards a new Social Economy agenda for a sustainable and inclusive Mediterranean', organised by Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and CEPES hold last 4 November. This event brought together representatives and experts of the social economy from 20 different nationalities from Southern Mediterranean and European countries. The agenda of the workshop focused on the future European Action Plan for Social Economy and how this will strength the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in the social economy.

The meeting was attended by, among others, the secretary general of the UfM, Nasser Kamel, the commissioner of Employment and Social Rights of the European Commission, Nicolas Schmit, the minister of Social Economy of Morocco, Nadia Fetah Alaui, the secretary of state of Employment and Social Economy of the Government of Spain, Joaquín Rey and the head of the OECD Social Economy and Innovation Unit, Antonella Noya, together with the President of CEPES, Juan Antonio Pedreño.