Brussels, 02/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - On 1 December in Brussels, the European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB) held the first conference on cooperative banks in Europe. Pervenche Berès, Chair of the EP Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, stressed during the opening “the need to support cooperative banking networks which are alternatives to the existing networks”.
The conference was organised into three round tables for discussion. The first, on cooperative values and...