4 Amendments of Lefteris CHRISTOFOROU related to 2015/2328(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Regrets that a lack of financial capacity continues to be one of the main obstacles for potential applicants, along with administrative and regulatory obstacles; encourages the Commission, the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) and the Creative Europe national Desks to try to address the under-representation of micro cultural operators among funded organisations and certain sectors in the Culture sub-programme;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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3. Looks forward to seeing the initial results of the Financial Guarantee Facility launched in 2016; by easing the access of SMEs and microbusinesses to loans, expects this new market instrument to help theowards the scaling up of cultural and creative projects, sectors, which account for 4.4 % of the EU’s GDP and 3.8 % of its workforce, so that they realise their full potential as a promising source of growth and jobs and as drivers of competitiveness, cultural diversity and cross-border cooperation; regrets, however, that the Facility will only work in those countries where a similar instrument is already in place;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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3. Looks forward to seeing the initial results of the Financial Guarantee Facility launched in 2016; by easing the access of SMEs and microbusinesses to loans, expects this new market instrument to help the cultural and creative sectors, which account for 4.4 % of the EU’s GDP and 3.8 % of its workforce, realise their full potential as a promising source of growth and jobs and as drivers of competitiveness, cultural diversity and cross-border cooperation; strongly regrets, however, that the Facility will only work in those countries where a similar instrument is already in place;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes, in the light of the significant influx of migrants and refugees into the EU in recent years, the programme’s growing intercultural dimension, which will hopefully result in more projects that boost cultural integration and understandingdiversity and intercultural dialogue as of 2017; given that cultural integration is likely to remain a challenge in many countries in the EU for years to come, underlines that this should be supported as a regular programme component.