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EIGHTH EUROPEAN MEETING OF EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP
BRUSSELS 18 MAY 2009
Employee ownership and the financial crisis
  
  The financial crisis brings new impulses for employee ownership development. Firstly, restructuring and rescuing distressed companies are usually a major field for employee ownership solutions. Secondly depressed assets bring new opportunities for investors, including employee owners. Finally, employee ownership should more effectively be associated to the governance and management of European companies, shifting the focus from shorter to the long-term vision.
  The new "Economic Survey of Employee Ownership in European Countries in 2008" was published during the meeting, giving the exact picture of employee ownership on the threshold of the financial crisis.
  What is the feeling amongst employee owners? What about ownership? share ownership? employee ownership? Relics of the past or new opportunities? What about the future? A roundtable gathered witnesses from various countries.
  Which changes at policy level? Germany was just voting a new legislation for employee share ownership some weeks ago. The Italian Senate discusses a new project…
This is also the context of our "Manifesto for the 2009 European Parliament Elections".

  All presentations of the conference
- Programme of the Meeting
- Economic Survey of Employee Ownership in European Countries in 2008
- Employee Participation in Voestalpine (Austria)
- Employee Share Ownership in Vivendi (France): Coming
- Employee Share Plans in the UK
- How Mondragon Corporación faces the global crisis (Spain)
- Shares to Employees in Veidekke (Norway)
- The European Employee Ownership Top 100 rankings in 2008
- Political Answers to the EFES' Manifesto for the European Election 2009
- New legislation in Slovenia
- New legislation in Germany and the need for a European ESOP
- Discussions in Italian Senate
- Ieke van den Burg, Member of the European Parliament: Questions and answers from the European Commission

  Reports and pictures of the conference
- Report of the Meeting
- Pictures of the meeting
- Osma konferenca Evropske federacije lastništva zaposlenih

  Economic Survey of Employee Ownership in European Countries in 2008
The full Annual Economic Survey of Employee Ownership in European Countries was published on May 18, 2009. It is available both in electronic or paper version. More information

  The European Employee Ownership TOP 100 in 2008
Here are the new rankings or the European top companies regarding employee ownership in 2008. Detailed information

  Programme and practical information
The Eighth European Meeting of Employee Ownership was held in the prestigious Egmont Palace in the center of Brussels.
Programme of the Meeting
Registration and pratical information


 

 

 


 

 

For information and contact
EFES - EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP
FEAS - FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DE L'ACTIONNARIAT SALARIE
Avenue Voltaire 135, B-1030 Brussels
Tel/fax: +32 (0)2 242 64 30
E-mail: efes@efesonline.org
Web site: www.efesonline.org
EFES' objective is to act as the umbrella organization of employee owners, companies and all persons, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions looking to promote employee ownership and participation in Europe.