Across Boundaries: european cooperative societies. Study cases
The aim to achieve �in 2003� the single market also for the European
cooperative societies was one of the major objectives of the EC Regulation
concerning the status of the Societas Cooperativa Europeae (SCE). Seven
years later there seems to be little practical experiences. This paper is focused
in the analysis of experiences in the Basque Country, especially on
Ethical Banking and the Project developed known as Fiare, which would be the first European scope credit cooperative. The study of this case has
just emerged some questions about the real difficulties for extending this
kind of European collaboration: some of them with legal basis but others
probably with cultural basis.
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