Cuts to Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps are “bad news for young people and “send a terrible message to the cultural and creative and media sectors”. Reacting to the revised proposal for the 2021-2027 budget for the Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps programmes, CULT Committee Chair, Sabine Verheyen (EPP, DE), Erasmus+ … Continued
During the last couple of weeks, Culture Action Europe, the only intersectoral European network that brings together all practices in culture, has been in conversation with its members. The aim of this sizeable exchange has been to identify the main challenges the European culture and creative sectors are facing in times of pandemic. Interviewing both … Continued
The impact of coronavirus violently affects all sectors of society. Negative impacts are particularly important in the world of culture in Italy (but also elsewhere), where a relatively small number of medium and small enterprises operate compared to a multitude of micro enterprises and individual forms of self-entrepreneurship, representing the basic productive and professional fabric … Continued
Five weeks after their first video-conference meeting amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Ministers for Culture from the 27 EU Member States e-met for the second time, on Tuesday 19 May, chaired by Croatian Minister Nina Obuljen Korzinek. On the Council’s agenda was a follow-up on the implementation of the national initiatives taken to tackle the socio-economic … Continued
Tomorrow, on May the 19th, the EU Ministers of Culture and Audiovisual will meet digitally to discuss the impact of Covid19 on the Cultural and Creative Sectors. Following up on the first video-exchange cultural ministers had in April, this meeting will focus on further steps that need to be taken in the transition period, including … Continued
On the 9th of May, 70 years ago, Robert Schuman laid the foundation of what we know now as the European Union. “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. It will be built through concrete achievements which first create a de facto solidarity.” The solidarity to which Schumann referred to has … Continued
The world of arts and culture has become the battlefield of ideas and ideologies in an increasingly populist and polarised world. This is a global trend and Europe is unfortunately no exception. The term “culture wars” is already in use both in the European debate as well as in several member states. What was unthinkable … Continued
The cultural and creative sectors are among the most severely impacted by the pandemic crisis According to preliminary estimates by Eurostat, the COVID-19 crisis may affect about 7.3 million cultural and creative jobs across the EU. Over 30% of the people affected are self-employed and lack adequate social protection. The world of arts, culture, heritage … Continued