70 centů na kulturu? 17 centů je předběžná odpověd Evropského parlamentu
Pouhých 500 milionů Euro má být věnováno na příští 7letý kulturní program v EU. Je to jedno z doporučení, které vychází z hlasování Dočasného výboru pro politické výzvy a rozpočtové prostředky rozšířené Unie při Evropském parlamentu 10. května 2005. 500 milionů sice představuje oproti původnímu návrhu Komise (408 milionů) nárůst o 22%, nicméně to znamená pouhých 17 centů na rok na občana EU. Kampaň, kterou iniciovala European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH) pokračuje.
Podrobné a průběžně aktualizované informace o kampani lze nalézt na www.eurocult.org v sekci "70 Cents for Culture".
Svým podpisem se můžete ke kampani připojit i vy zde.
Only 500 million Euros will be dedicated to the next 7-year EU culture programme. This is one of the recommendations resulting from the vote on 10 May by the European Parliaments's Temporary Committee on Policy Challenges and Budgetary Means of the enlarged EU on the EU's general financial framework for 2007-2013.
This position is likely to get confirmed by the European Parliament as a whole at the beginning of June and then form its negotiating position with the EU Member States. The proposal for 500m Euros over 7 years represents an increase of 22% compared to the Commission's proposal (408 million Euros), but it only means a meager 17 cents per EU citizen per year.
The 70 cents for culture campaign, an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH) clearly has a higher goal: to increase the current budget tenfold to 70 cents per citizen, or 340 million Euros, per year. EFAH and ECF maintain that 70 cents is the minimum required to meet the current needs of the European cultural sector.
The proposed 500 million Euros are a low level compromise between the goals set out by the campaign and the proposal of the Commission. EFAH and ECF continue to mobilize the cultural sector to achieve further gains as the EU decision-making process moves ahead. The next biggest campaign challenge is to build support at Member State level for a substantially increased culture budget.
For further information, please visit the ´70 Cents for Culture` section of our site (www.eurocult.org) or visit the site of EFAH, co-organiser of this campaign (www.efah.org).
