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The Council’s MFF budget proposal: bad news for AgoraEU

The Council has unveiled its proposed budget allocations for the next long-term EU budget and it’s bad news: a 33% reduction in budget for AgoraEU compared to the Parliament’s position.

Reading between the strands: AgoraEU after Parliament and Council

Culture Action Europe calls for an AgoraEU that covers all cultural and creative sectors fairly, protects the cross-sectoral nature of European cultural cooperation, and provides more ambitious funding for culture as a whole. Where sectors have specific needs, they must be addressed consistently, not selectively, across various sectors.

Culture is being erased from EU research and innovation funding. How do we save it?

A coalition of cultural networks started the ‘Name, Place, Fund’ campaign to secure the presence of culture for research, innovation and competitiveness in the 2028-2034 budget.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Socially Engaged Arts

Socially engaged arts are collaborative, community-centred practices where artists and participants co-create artistic responses to social, environmental, and political issues. But how does that actually work on the ground? We’ve put together a reflective blog post to explore what these practices look like in action.

An elevated, high-angle view of the image shows a large, circular conference hall with wooden flooring and multiple tiers of seating where numerous people are seated at desks equipped with monitors. A giant, ring-shaped light fixture hangs from the concentric wooden ceiling directly over the center of the room. Digital display screens are mounted on the upper wooden walls, overlooking the formal meeting of the European Council.
Abstract, glowing ring of light with radiating orange, blue, and yellow streaks against a black background.

Culture Action Europe joins more than 200 organisations in signing SDG Watch Europe’s Manifesto for a Sustainable Europe for its Citizens #yEUrmanifesto. In light of the upcoming EP elections, this manifesto expresses the need to re-assert the core values of the EU to address issues such as climate change, growing inequality, women’s rights, access to … Continued

In the run-up to the European Parliamentary Elections, Culture Action Europe together with the cultural and creative sectors advocates for a future for culture and for Europe that is democratic, diverse, fair, free, human, inclusive and vital. As part of our EP elections campaign, we have launched a podcast series dedicated to discussing key cultural … Continued

The European Cultural Foundation has created a webpage dedicated to the EP elections with useful information on the voting process, an overview of awareness campaigns and more tools to inform and engage citizens. We invite you to access and make use of this information and would like to share with you the following message by … Continued

In the run-up to the European Parliamentary Elections, Culture Action Europe together with the cultural and creative sector advocates for a future for culture and Europe that is democratic, diverse, fair, free, human, inclusive and vital. As part of our EP elections campaign, we have launched a podcast series dedicated to discussing key cultural topics … Continued

The world has undergone profound changes due to the convergence of several trends. One of them is the redistribution of power brought about by Technocapitalism. Based on market capitalism, technocapitalism makes use of information infrastructures within networked spaces to gain access to knowledge and creativity in the form of data. These infrastructures are not only … Continued