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EU leaders sign ambitious Joint Declaration on Culture

EU institutions have signed the Joint Declaration on culture, agreeing a long-term strategic vision for culture at the heart of Europe.

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.

European leaders Roberta Metsola, Nikos Christodoulides, and Ursula von der Leyen stand side-by-side smiling while jointly holding a dark blue document folder embossed with the European Union stars. They are formally dressed and positioned in front of a backdrop featuring several large European Union flags.
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.

CAE’s member IETM, after its Annual Conference “Tomorrow” taking place in Athens, in order to underline the exchange, discourse and solidarity that took place closed the meeting with a Manifesto. The Manifesto is an impromptu collective action of Secretary General of Culture Action Europe Luca Bergamo, Secretary General of IETM Nan van Houte and Coordinator … Continued

Rome, October 15, 2013 – At 12:15 Culture Action Europe’s (CAE’s) Italian members performed the organisation’s first experimental flash mob in defense of culture on the bridge Ponte Sant Angelo, in the heart of Rome, Italy. The banner “Do not kill culture” was rolled out from the bridge and soon thereafter five silhouettes representing icons … Continued

On 15 November, the Research Center of the University of Louvain and the European Studies Institute of the University of Saint-Louis will organize the International Symposium on European Law and Cultural Policies. The International Symposium aims at clarifying the interactions between European law and cultural policies on the basis of three questions. The first deals … Continued

The resale right petition is an initiative taken by EVA – European Visual Artists, the European umbrella of visual arts copyrights organizations CISAC and GESAC, in order to protect the fundamental right of authors of graphic and plastic arts for a small percentage of the resale price that art market professionals pay to them at … Continued

On 10 July, the EP committee on Regional Development adopted compromises on the legislative package of the Cohesion policy, following discussions with the Council in the framework of the inter-institutional negotiations (known in EU jargon as the ‘Trilogue’). The compromise on the common provisions for all EU funds sets the allocation for the European Social … Continued

On 17 July, the Lithuanian Presidency issued a press release announcing that the Committee of the Permanent Representatives (COREPER I) has agreed on a compromise text of the Regulation establishing the Creative Europe programme. As expected since the Member States’ agreement on the multiannual EU budget in February the global budget for Creative Europe will … Continued

  The website of the European Expert Network on Culture (EENC) now features a review of 87 documents published in recent years which address the social and economic effects and impacts of cultural heritage, including its tangible and intangible components. The literature review, prepared by EENC members Cornelia Dümcke and Mikhail Gnedovsky following a request from the … Continued