Culture Action Europe hosted a campaign meeting last week open to the public providing updates on developments with the next EU long-term budget, to discuss the next steps of our Ask, Pay, Trust campaign, and to identify different forms of action that can be taken over the next months. 

Last week, Culture Action Europe and Europa Nostra wrote a letter to European Parliament President Metsola to call for the leading role of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) for the proposed AgoraEU programme.

Lars Ebert reflects on his time at Mondiacult 2025 and the Civic Agora in Barcelona.

Culture Action Europe is proud to present ‘Towards the Culture Compass: A Sector Blueprint’: a discussion paper resulting from the joint efforts of 30 cross-border European cultural networks, aiming to propose a direction for European cultural policies.

Too often, “culture and health” is confined to a niche, spoken about in clinical terms and judged by health metrics. To move beyond that frame, we need a wider vocabulary. Culture is not merely healing; it is foundational to how people make meaning, build relationships and imagine futures.

This week, Culture Action Europe, together with 30 European cultural networks and organisations, sent a letter to the European Council and national ministers of finance and culture to urge to reverse the proposed 27.56 million EUR cuts to the Creative Europe Programme in the 2026 financial year.