Brussels, 29/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - Encouraging private funding and facilitating public support for social entrepreneurship: these are the two major ideas in the draft exploratory opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on funding social enterprises. The draft was presented at the public hearing on Thursday 28 July, to which civil society players were invited (see EUROPE 10429). The outcome of the debates will be used by the European Commission which plans to publish...