It is time for mid-term elections at the European Parliament. After the appointment of Roberta Metsola (EPP, Malta) as the new speaker of the House, parliamentary committees have also been holding ballots to renew their own leaderships for the next half of the current legislative term, until June 2024.
On 20 January, 58 civil society organisations, including Culture Action Europe, joined Citizens Take Over Europe in signing an open letter to the Executive Board calling to ensure that the recommendations coming out of the European Citizens’ Panels at the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) are all seriously and publicly debated and responded … Continued
“In search of equal partners: On being a SWANA artist and cultural worker in the EU” reveals particular circumstances, realities and patterns of SWANA artists and cultural workers residing in the EU and determine which are the main challenges to living a fulfilling professional life as well as cooperating with other EU peers.
On the 1st of January 2022, France kicked off its six-month rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the institution representing the government of the 27 Member States. Culture is prominently featured in the priorities of the Presidency, with a specific attention to multilingualism, a traditional priority for the country. “As the cultural … Continued
Civil Society Europe (CSE), where Culture Action Europe is a member, has recently published the final update of its study on CSOs participation in the preparation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs). This report has been developed in the period August-September 2021, with the support from the CSE Task Force on NRRPs and inputs from a broad range of civil society actors.
A few days before the end of 2021, the European Commission kicked off a consultation on the modernisation of competition law to make it possible for self-employed workers to have access to collective bargaining.
In December 2021, Culture Action Europe produced “Centre Culture in the Future of Europe,” a document synthesising all 12 hub contributions into one Amplify Collective Recommendation. This document presents the key focus areas of the issues that project participants discussed as most affecting underrepresented communities across Europe.
The main work programme of Horizon Europe for the period 2021-2022 outlines the objectives and specific topic areas that will receive a total of €14.7 billion in funding (out of the 95.5 billion for the 7-year period until 2027). Culture is one of those, being specifically addressed by a dedicated Cluster of the programme.