ASK PAY TRUST – Take Action!
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Culture Action Europe asks you to send letters to your national ministers to help secure funding for culture in EU programmes for competitiveness, research, regional development, and social development.
The European Commission published its proposal for the next EU long-term budget (Multiannual Financial Framework, 2028–2034) on 16 July 2025. This proposal now needs to be agreed upon by other EU institutions, specifically the European Parliament and the Council, which represents the national governments of member states. While the initial proposal for the culture programme in the next MFF, AgoraEU, is a positive step, Culture Action Europe wants to ensure that culture can also benefit from other EU funding programmes.
We ask you to engage your national ministers, who will play a key role in the budget negotiations. You can find template letters below. Most ministries should have a publicly available contact email.
If we want to influence member state positions, we need to act now. ✊🏼🦋
Current templates
- Write a letter to your culture and finance ministers | template
- Write a letter to your competitiveness and research ministers | template
- Write a letter to your regional ministers | template
- Write a letter to your social affairs minister | template
Older templates – July 2025
- Write a letter to your national finance minister | template
- Write a letter to your cultural minister | template
🎙️ Campaign Meetings:
Culture Action Europe holds public Campaign Meetings to share updates about where we share policy updates, connect on our next steps as a sector and share tools and resources to move the campaign forward. Find the videos and slides for each meeting below:
🤳🏽 Social Media Resources
Find the Ask, Pay, Trust logos, banners and other handy tools to share your support for campaign.
Is your language missing or incorrectly translated? Create your own here. You can send it to us to make sure we include it in the campaign pack.Â
✊🏼 Ways to Organise Locally!
Endorse, endorse, endorse! Share the link to endorse the campaign in your channels or pass around endorsement sheets at your events
Flyer in your city: Use our campaign pack, including translated graphics, to spread the word at your local activities (If there could be a better translation, please reach out and we’ll update the materials!)
Social Media Blitz: Post photos or videos with #AskPayTrust and tag other orgs and EU leaders.
Host a letter-writing session: Use our template letter to write to your national Ministers of Culture about how they can center culture in their policymaking.