February saw a growth of interest in the Economy of Communion<\/a> (EoC) in two European cities. On 19th<\/sup> February, in Madrid, there was an evening for students and business people, focused on the opportunities the EoC can offer to Spanish society in this time of economic and moral crisis.<\/p>\n Luigino Bruni, Professor of Economics at the Bicocca University in Milan, repeated in Madrid from a lecture given in July 2010, \u201cIf we look at how the EoC industries work, we see that fraternity is truly lived out, there is no hiding behind a hierarchy, if you are open to the other …whilst you suffer more, you receive more blessings\u201d,<\/em> One member of the audience appreciated and understood the novelty that comes from choosing to follow EoC lines, they said: \u201cThis is a very, very courageous idea\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n The discussions went on at length including over supper which closed the event. Another entrepreneur present, who had come for the first time, declared: \u201c…I have understood that being an entrepreneur within the EoC means choosing a new style of life…\u201d.<\/em> Read report <\/a><\/p>\n On 26th<\/sup> February, in Nuremburg, there was the conclusion of the Congress of Christian Executives, in which the Economy of Communion was one of the 300 exhibitors.<\/p>\n The title of ths Congress-fair, the only one of its kind in Germany, was \u201cFostering company growth through advocacy of Christian values\u201d:<\/em>3,800 participants and wide media coverage.<\/p>\n On the afternoon of 25th<\/sup> February there was a session dedicated to the Economy of Communion, which highlighted the importance for a Christian of the \u201cculture of giving\u201d in respect to: working with clients, fraternal relationships between two directors, and also in the most difficult times for the business: \u201c What I heard this evening is what I\u2019ve been looking for all my life\u201d<\/em> commented one business leader, whilst another participant said: \u201cYou have put into crisis my principle of profit, which I held as indispensible\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Hopefully these brief extracts have given you a foretaste of the upcoming congress dedicated to the 20th<\/sup> anniversary of EoC which will be held in the Meeting Centre in Ottmaring, Bavaria, Germany from 24 \u2013 26th<\/sup> June 2011.\u00a0 Read report<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Important events dedicated to the EdC were held in both of these European cities. Here we offer a summary of the main outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}