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A year after the Swiss ratification of the UNESCO Convention, the Swiss Committee for UNESCO and the Swiss coalition for cultural diversity presented in Bern a catalogue of proposals established by sixty experts in the fields of music, cinema, visual arts and cultural heritage, theatre and dance, education, medias, international...
Organised on 18th may 2009 by the CNC on the occasion of the 62nd International Film Festival in Cannes, this debate was lead by Christine Albanel, French minister of Culture and Communication ; Anne-Marie Idrac, Secretary of State – External Trade ; Ignasi Guardans Cambó, Director of the ICAA (Spain)...
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...
The French Coalition for cultural diversity objects to audiovisual services being used as a trade-off in commercial negotiations. The French coalition for cultural diversity expressed its concerns with regards to the advancing negotiations between the European Union and Korea on a free trade agreement and its attached cultural cooperation protocol. Eager to...
Pascal Rogard, President of the French coalition for cultural diversity, wrote to Catherine Aston, External Trade Commissioner and to Viviane Reding, Information and Media Society Commissioner to express its concern about the advancing negotiations of a cultural trade agreement with Korea which could threaten the European audiovisual industry. Read Catherine...
The French coalition for cultural diversity has published “Cultural policies in France” which provides a non exhaustive inventory of the main policies set up in France in support of the various cultural sectors (visual arts, audiovisual and cinema, books, music and performing arts). This brochure can also be downloaded in...
One hundred delegates from NGO’s attended the 1st extraordinary session of the Intergovernmental Committee and issued recommendations on the contributions of civil society to the implementation of the UNESCO Convention. Read the conclusions.
The French Coalition for Cultural Diversity is concerned about the threats to the European cultural industry in case a cultural cooperation protocol should be included in the free trade agreements now being negotiated with India and Korea These concerns were notified in a letter dated February 26, 2008 to Mrs Albanel,...
Coalitions for Cultural Diversity from 37 countries on all continents and representing organizations from the cultural and the arts sectors gathered in Seville, Spain from September 18-19, 2007 and declared the official creation of the International Federation of Coalitions for Cultural Diversity (IFCCD). The Federation recognized the 42 existing coalitions...
The First Conference of Parties of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions took place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on June 18-20, 2007 The purpose of this first Conference of Parties was to establish the operational and monitoring organs of the...
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...