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
The European cultural sector calls on President Barroso to stand strong in the negotiations on the future of the Creative Europe programme … 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
In 2007, the EU decided on a strategy for collaboration between member states on cultural policy. One of the first actions has been the work of the Access to Culture Civil Society Dialogue Platform within which a work group has been dedicated to education and learning. With the communication from the European Commission on a … Continued
CAE Reflection Paper on Culture and EU External Relations (FR), written together with Relais Culture Europe. #CulturalPolicies Attachments CAE Reflection Paper on Culture and EU External Relations (FR) (678 kB)