Doubling the culture budget is the minimum request put forward by the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) to the EU member states, urging the EU Council to support the European Parliament’s proposal to increase funding for the Creative Europe program. Creative Europe is the sole EU programme for the CCS and is currently hugely over-subscribed. More needs to be done if we are to deliver even more added value to the sector and the people engaged in it.
Culture Action Europe has campaigned for #Double4Culture and #1%forCulture since the beginning of Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) negotiations in 2018, highlighting the fundamental role of arts and culture in different EU policy areas and its contribution to building a shared, prosperous future for all European citizens. Cultural stakeholders are calling on EU leaders to show a higher level of ambition in shaping a brighter future for Europe through increased EU investment in culture and the arts.
Culture Action Europe and our members are now mobilising at the member states level, developing joint advocacy actions to call for sufficient and increased funding for the arts and culture in Europe. CAE, Trans Europe Halles and the City of Lund called an emergency meeting with the main Swedish cultural stakeholders and co-drafted a letter addressed to the Swedish ministries of Culture and Finances, as well as to Swedish MPs and MEPs calling for support of increase of Creative Europe budget in the upcoming EU Council meetings and in the framework of MFF negotiations. You can find the letter (in Swedish) here.
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Learn more about the CAE 1% for Culture campaign here.
