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The European Coalitions request clarifications and guarantees/ensurances on the autonomy and the funding of the Media and Culture strands Read the press release
Sweden has joined the European coalitions for cultural diversity movement which now counts 13 countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovaquia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom) « We are very pleased to see our Swedish friends join our movement”, said Beat Santschi, the President of the...
The European coalitions for cultural diversity contributed to the consultation launched by the European commission (DG Culture) last April on cultural and creative industries. Read the contribution the Green paper
The European coalitions for cultural diversity contributed to the European Commission’s (DG Trade) on the EU’s future trade policy. They called on the Commission (both DG TRADE and DG EAC) to develop a specific strategy for CCPs in order to ensure the autonomy of the cultural negotiation and the implementation...
Over the last few months, the French coalition for cultural diversity, together with other professionals of the audiovisual industry, has been strongly mobilized against the automatic attachment of a Cultural Cooperation Protocol to the trade agreements presently negotiated by the EU. The French coalition has been invited to participate to...
On the occasion of their last meeting in Paris, on October 23rd 2009, the European coalitions for cultural diversity have issued a set of Resolutions calling for concrete actions for the implementation of the UNESCO Convention so as to insure the protection and promotion of culture on national as well...
The European coalitions for cultural diversity are mobilised against the systematic attachment of a cultural cooperation protocol to the bilateral free trade negotiations conducted by the European Commission, and request the setting up of a general negotiating strategy to be specifically designed for culture. Read the declaration issued at the...
The European coalitions wrote a letter to the President of the European Commission, M. Barroso, urging him to intervene in order to dissociate the Protocol of Cultural Cooperation from the Free Trade agreement negotiations now being held with Korea. Read the letter and the comments of the European coalitions on...
On December 18th 2006, 13 European States (Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden) ratified, together with the European Community, the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This significant deed sees a number of 35 countries...