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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, and regional 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. Please send your letters by 31 October 2025. Most ministries should have a publicly available contact email.
Member states will present their position by the end of the year, so if we want to influence it, we need to act now. ✊🏼🦋
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.
🤳🏽 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
Pass the Mic: Choose a script and record a video explaining why we should ask, pay, and trust artists. “Pass the mic” to someone else who should, too.
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.