The next European Commission should have a commissioner with a social economy portfolio, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Minister Yolanda Díaz said on Monday.
Díaz, who stepped down a few days ago as leader of the junior partner, Sumar, in the government of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has called on the new European Commission to have a “Commissioner responsible for the Social Economy for the next legislature”.
All the European organisations and platforms that focus on trying to promote the social economy “are the hope that the EU needs today, more than ever,”…