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January marks the beginning of a new Presidency of the Council of the EU. After last-minute negotiations on a wide range of subjects just before the holiday season – such as the long-term budget and Next Generation EU -, or at the very beginning of it (see the Brexit trade and cooperation deal), Germany has now virtually handed the Presidency…

Being the only cross-sectorial cultural network in Europe, Culture Action Europe represents a wide range of cultural organisations. Among its priorities is the affirmation of culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development, and raising awareness about the role of culture in implementing the Agenda 2030. This focus reflects a trend that is currently gaining momentum in Europe. The pivotal…

We are pleased to present Culture Action Europe’s latest and last Newsletter of the notorious 2020. We are heading into a new 2021 with a strengthened ambition and a stronger political support to place culture at the heart of the future of Europe.  There will be no sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic or future for Europe without culture. The…

As negotiations are drawing to a close on all major EU multiannual programmes, interinstitutional talks between Parliament, Council and Commission stroke a deal on the future Creative Europe on Monday 14 December.  For the next seven years, Creative Europe will have 2,2 billion euros, the biggest budget to date, as foreseen under the general agreement on the next EU’s long-term…

The last edition of Culture Action Europe’s News Digest for the year 2020 was sent to our members today. Monthly News Digests, meticulously prepared by the CAE team, keep our members informed about the relevant developments in EU policies related to culture and the arts. Interested in the EU Cultural Policies and would like to remain informed? Consider joining Culture…

While long-term budget talks are kept hostage by the veto of two Member States and the Commission might have to resort to emergency plans to keep programmes going, on December 1st European Ministers for Culture gathered online in a video-conference to discuss funding prospects for culture and support measures linked to the fallouts of the pandemic. The ministers welcomed the…

The European Commission and stakeholders published a new study that sheds light on the status and working conditions of artists, cultural and creative professionals. The study looks at characteristics of employment of artists and cultural and creative professionals in EU Member States with regards to artist status and entitlements, social security, self-employment, support ecosystems and alternative financing, artistic freedom, career…

Policy-makers and those who implement cultural policies need to pay greater attention to soft-infrastructure and participation, rather than traditional approaches prioritising hard infrastructure. Now is the time to place community involvement to co-design and manage such processes at the core of the new Creative Europe programme, Horizon Europe, the Rights and Values programme, the European Regional Development and Cohesion Fund,…

In this open leter, initiated by More Europe – external cultural relations and supported by 20 prominent cultural organisations, Culture Action Europe calls on the European Commission and the European Parliament to give proper consideration and strengthen international cultural relations within future policy frameworks including in foreign and sustainable development policies; as well as in the upcoming EU financial framework….

On November 10, 2020, Culture Action Europe jointly submitted an open letter to the German Presidency of the EU, European Parliament Budget and ECON Chairs, and European Commission Task Force on European Recovery Plan regarding concerns with the lack of involvement of civil society organisations in the design and adoption of the European regulatory framework for the National Recovery and…

The US election week was not the only marathon taking place these days. The negotiating teams of the European Parliament and of the German Presidency of the EU Council have been trying hard to agree on a compromise text on the next 7-year Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). On Tuesday 10 November, a few days after the white smoke on the rule…