This country report examines the cultural situation in Canada in 2013-2014 as well as the potentials and challenges for strengthened cultural relations with the EU. It has been written by Rod Fisher and edited by Prof. Yudhishthir Raj Isar, in the framework of the Preparatory Action “Culture in the EU’s External Relations”. Download (pdf)
The conference on 7-8 April 2014 at BOZAR Horta Hall, Brussels, marked the culmination of the Preparatory Action and presented…
This country report examines the cultural situation in Armenia in 2013-2014 as well as the potentials and challenges for strengthened cultural relations with the EU. It has been written by Damien Helly and edited by Prof. Yudhishthir Raj Isar, in the framework of the Preparatory Action “Culture in the EU’s External Relations”. Download (pdf)
Read the key findings, recommendations and a summary from the discussions at the conference. Download (pdf)
After the Preparatory Action’s final conference, Dutch MEP Marietje Schaake stated: ‘Culture can play a very important role in development, and in advancing human rights. It is part of trade and we should make it a more integral part of our enlargement policy. Think of issues like media freedom, freedom of expression…’
Zaza Rusadze hopes that culture can be a tool to prevent conflicts like the one which broke out between Russia and Ukraine in 2013-2014.
The director of the SAMRO Foundation (South African Music Rights Organisation), André Le Roux, thinks that the European cultural institutes must change their framework and corporate more when working with African nations.
Egyptian theatre director, Ahmed El Attar, calls for more coherence between the cultural funding strategy of the EU member states and the strategy of culture in EU external relations.
The chief executive of the British Council, Sir Martin Davidson, on the three most important points he takes out of the Preparatory Action’s final conference in Brussels on 7-8 April 2014: ‘1) More equal cultural exchange, 2) More power to cultural actors, 3) More engagement of young people.’
This introduction video gives a brief overview of the work carried out by the Preparatory Action “Culture in EU’s External Relations”. It was shown at the very beginning of the final conference of the Preparatory Action, on 7th April 2014, in Brussels.