05/06/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 4 June, the European Commission released a range of studies on the situation involving the social economy in the European Union’s close neighbourhood. These studies reveal that the social economy and social entrepreneurship are facing serious difficulties to the east of the EU (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) and in the Western Balkans. In the first group, the economy suffers from the lack of a regulatory framework or an...