Activities of Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR related to 2022/2047(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the New European Agenda for Culture and the EU Strategy for International Cultural Relations (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the New European Agenda for Culture and the EU strategy for international cultural relations
Amendments (15)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas culture is a key vector for addressing major global challenges and, if conceived as a bottom-up and free flow of ideas and creations, is also a fundamental tool for peace and conflict prevention and a resource for stability and regeneration in any fragile context;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas third countries’ diaspora in the EU and European diaspora in third countries can be important actors in strengthening cultural relations between the EU and other countries;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas illiberal and authoritarian regimes attempt to redefine international rules and values by challenging their universality and claiming them to be a weapon of cultural hegemony deployed by the EU; whereas these above-mentioned regimes attempt to identify the EU as a neo-colonial actor in their discourse worldwide; highlights that these regimes actions are far-reaching globally and attempt to re-define international rules and multilateralism;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the efforts of the Commission and the European External Action Service to implement the Joint Communication “Towards an EU strategy for international cultural relations", demonstrating the EU’s added value and advancing cultural cooperation with partner countries; , as well as to develop a closer model for cooperation with Member States, national institutes for culture (EUNIC), private and public operators from the EU and its partner countries;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the creation of focal points in EU Delegations, the development of the Cultural Relations Platform and the joint implementation of programmes allowing cultural actors and public stakeholders to develop innovative ideas and concrete projects, finance cultural relations and facilitate networks;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recognizes the efforts of the European Commission and EEAS in the protection of cultural heritage sites and the fight against illegal trafficking in cultural property; stresses the importance to integrate cultural heritage protection to the various phases of the conflict cycle;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges the Council, the European Commission and EEAS to enhance the protection of the cultural heritage in conflict zones; considers that an introduction of targeted sanctions against individuals and entities responsible for destruction or purposeful damaging of the cultural heritage would be an important step in establishing deterrence and ensuring accountability for such acts;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Highlights that European culture could be best represented and identified by means of a common and consolidated embodiment of the EU worldwide, which goes beyond the image of different particular or aggregated EU Member States’ cultures;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Emphasises the potential of EU International Cultural Relations to counter disinformation in third countries and foreign interferences towards the EU, and the hostile narratives against the EU in illiberal and authoritarian regimes;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Stresses the need for the EU to be fully present in cultural events worldwide, especially those that are global, such has the World Fair; calls for the possibility for the EU to host a World Fair, which could take place in different EU Member States;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Underlines that is necessary to strengthen International Cultural Relations cooperation between the European Commission and EEAS with EUNIC, as well as with alike-minded partners and international organizations such as UNESCO; stresses the need to put a special focus, without disregarding other partners, on EU-Africa and EU- Latin America and the Caribbean international cultural relations;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls to strengthen the role of EU Delegations in EU International Cultural Relations and its focal points, including by the allocation of the necessary resources and by developing a tailor-made International Cultural Relations list of activities and programmes for EU Delegations to implement with the appropriate resources; calls for the development of strategies based on international cultural relations for EU delegations and other EU actors in their relations with third countries;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for the allocation of the necessary budgetary and personnel resources to the EU’s international cultural relations and cultural diplomacy in order to strengthen EU's action in this regard and facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academia in third countries; considers that the EEAS and the European Commission should be able to pull resources when needed from geographical envelopes in the Global Europe instrument;
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for an update to the 2016 Joint Communication “Towards an EU strategy for international cultural relations" with a view to establishing a permanent structural and institutional EU dimension and developing and implementing a long- term strategy to be integrated permanently and horizontally within the EU’s external action toolbox.
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls to develop an own and autonomous toolbox for EU International Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy, that draw from the experience and collaborate in partnership with EUNIC and Member States’ cultural institutes abroad, with a cultural diplomacy action and International Cultural Relations based on events to be developed in a frame of cultural cooperation and co-creation, actively involving civil society and the cultural sectors of third countries societies; Stresses that this toolbox could aim to promote European culture and way of life, and to provide EU assistance on capacity building, technical and material, as well as financial, to cultural, creative and innovative sectors of third countries’ civil society;