Today, the European Parliament voted on its resolution on the EU-USA free trade agreement negotiations, giving its green light for talks between the EU and the USA to start, and, more importantly, asking that cultural and audiovisual services, including online services, be excluded from the negotiating mandate, in order to safeguard the “cultural exception” and … Continued
Yesterday (15 May), we received an answer from Doris Pack, Chair of the EP Culture and Education committee, who also wrote on behalf of the EP President, Martin Schulz, to our letter in defense of the European budget for culture from 2014. In the letter, Mrs Pack underlines that “when making its recommendations, the Parliament … Continued
Following our action with the letter to President Barroso calling to defend the budget of the future Creative Europe programme, we sent a similar message to relevant members of the European Parliament. Here is the answer we received from MEP Hannes Swoboda, President of the ‘Socialists & Democrats’ group in the EP: “On behalf of … Continued
MEP Silvia Costa (S&D, Italy, rapporteur for Creative Europe in the Culture Committee of the European Parliament) has launched a call to defend the budget for the next EU Culture Programme Creative Europe. In her statement issued earlier today (11 April), Costa publicly supports the we are more – act for culture in Europe campaign. … Continued
We are getting worrying indications concerning the possible impact of the cuts proposed by the national Governments to the EU budget for 2014-2020. Pressures to cut funds to culture in favor of other policy have grown during the last days and there could be a real risk to see the funds for the Creative Europe programme substantially … Continued
The 2013 European Debates promoted by Culture Action Europe consists of a series of debates on European issues linked to the campaign message and animated by the advocacy network’s members across Europe. The ultimate goal of the debates is to foster the emergence of a citizen’s agenda for a sustainable, just and democratic Europe, based … Continued
Given the many points in common between the EP report and the Council position, an adoption of ‘Creative Europe’ in a so-called first reading is still possible[1], even if the negotiations on the global budget may impact on the ongoing inter-institutional negotiations, opening the door to a possible stalemate. A first reading agreement would ensure … Continued
The last United Nations report by the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, on “Copyright Policy and the Right to Science and Culture” was published in 2014. The Special Rapporteur examines copyright law and policy from the perspective of the right to science and culture, emphasizing both the need for protection of authorship … Continued