The municipality of Barcelona wants the city to become the “capital of solidarity economy”and promote ethical business initiatives to which it will give priority in procurement, said the first Deputy to the Mayor of the Catalan city, Gerardo Pisarello
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The “social and solidarity economy” includes some 5,000 enterprises\u00a0employing approximately 8% of citizens in Barcelona. According to Pisarello, the municipality will create a “Table of suppliers of public socially responsible purchasing” which will give preference to companies that “highlight the social return\u00a0of their activity”,\u00a0even though, as he himself acknowledged, the criteria to decide which companies are ethical and which are\u00a0not have not yet been defined.<\/p>\n
Promotion of social and solidarity economy<\/strong><\/p>\n The municipality of Barcelona will be working to ensure that citizens have access to more facilities if they wish to help support the development of companies in the sector of the social economy, as for example; facilitate meetings spaces or promote the creation of consortia\u00a0that represent different companies.<\/p>\n In the same way that it is important to democratize\u00a0politics, it should also be to “democratize the economy”, Pisarello\u00a0stressed. Among the SSE enterprises, they include\u00a0co-operatives working on\u00a0health and education, cultural centres for community management, ethical finance entities, time banks, organic\u00a0food and fair trade\u00a0distributors.\u00a0In addition, the municipality is considering to become a member of some of these companies, such as Fiare Banca Etica, although it has not yet been decided what percentage and when the participation may\u00a0become effective.<\/p>\n [Original article:\u00a0EL AYUNTAMIENTO DE BARCELONA DAR\u00c1 PRIORIDAD A LA ECONOM\u00cdA SOCIAL Y SOLIDARIA EN LAS CONTRATACIONES P\u00daBLICAS<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0www.lavanguardia.com<\/a>]<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The municipality of Barcelona wants the city to become the “capital of solidarity economy”and promote ethical business initiatives to which it will give priority in procurement, said the first Deputy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[325,948],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-2","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}