2022/2047(INI) | [ParlTrack]

Draft opinion
Recital A (new)

A. whereas culture and access to culture are fundamental elements for freedom and respect for human rights;

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Reiterates that culture and cultural heritage can play a key role in promoting peace, democracy and sustainable development by fostering tolerance, intercultural and interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding;

Amendment 11 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Stresses that culture includes local customs and traditions, such as farming practices or certain traditional health systems in some cases;

Amendment 12 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Stresses the need to protect cultural diversity and promote it as a condition for fruitful dialogue between countries and cultures; recalls that the EU has committed to contribute to the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Notes that the fundamental right to participate in cultural life, enshrined in Article 27.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is linked to certain sustainable development goals and that cultural resources contribute, in turn, to the achievement of those goals;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Recalls that culture plays a crucial role in crisis response policies, including through its contribution to economic development and employment and its role as a source of resilience and social inclusion, especially of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Underlines that access to culture and education has to be ensured for people with disabilities, particularly in developing countries, to break the vicious cycle that causes their socio-cultural conditions to worsen those of their lives;

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Deplores the fact that the cultural sector was hit hard by COVID-19 restrictions, with, for example, a ‘66 per cent reduction in visitor rates to World Heritage sites in 2020’1a and that, moreover, the high prevalence of self- employment in this sector makes it particularly sensitive to changing circumstances; _________________ 1a https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0 000381524/PDF/381524eng.pdf.multi

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcom~~Notes the inclusion of culture as an area of intervention in the Global Challenges thematic programme under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) – Global Europe Regulation to foster sustainable social and economic development, and international cultural cooperation;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the inclusion of culture as an area of intervention in the Global Challenges thematic programme under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) – Global Europe Regulation to foster sustainable social and economic development, and international cultural cooperation and promote initiatives for cultural diversity; welcomes the contribution of the NDICI-Global Europe instrument to the Erasmus+ programme, notably actions aimed at countries from the Global South not associated to the Erasmus+ programme; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to report regularly to the European Parliament on the state of implementation and achieved results of the NDICI-Global Europe instrument in the field of culture and education, including through the bi- annual scrutiny process (High Level Political Dialogue) and annual reporting;

Amendment 19 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

Amendment 2 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the Rome Declaration of the G20 Ministers of Culture in 2021 establishes the commitment of all Member States in actions to protect cultural heritage at risk in crisis areas and recognises the great potential of cultural heritage to drive climate action and sustainable development;

Amendment 20 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the Commission to launch more calls for proposals for cultural cooperation through the NDICI – Global Europe instrument and on partner countries to strengthen their cultural policies;

Amendment 21 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Calls on the Commission to ensure full monitoring of actions involving international cultural cooperation supported by the NDICI – Global Europe instrument in the 2021-2027 programming period; stresses that the performance indicators set out in the NDICI – Global Europe Regulation for culture as a specific objective should therefore be closely evaluated;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls on the EU and Member States to continue and reinforce the efforts in promoting dialogue, intercultural cooperation and cultural diversity, protecting cultural heritage, strengthening cultural and creative industries and supporting cultural policies including in the framework of development cooperation policies and its partnerships with developing countries;

Amendment 23 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Urges the Commission to provide for appropriate and decent funding for international cultural relations in existing programmes on culture and education, so that these can develop their international action in a proper way;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the integration of a specific chapter on culture under Title III (Human and Social Development) of the proposed partnership agreement between the EU and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS); underlines that cooperation in this field should also address the return, restitution and conservation of cultural works and artefacts; calls for the strengthening of cultural programmes to stimulate job opportunities, tourism, inclusive and sustainable growth, and social cohesion, to promote youth empowerment and gender equality, tackle harmful social and gender norms and stereotypes, fight against any forms of discrimination and to support the cultural sector which has been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic;

Amendment 26 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

Amendment 27 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that the EU has the potential to strengthen its international cultural cooperation partnerships through the Outermost Regions (ORs) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), which are located at geographical, cultural and linguistic crossroads around the world and maintain strong relations with partner countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, America and the Pacific; calls on the EU to design and support international cultural cooperation projects involving the ORs and OCTs in order to foster regional integration and build new partnerships with partner countries;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Underlines that to be sustainable in the long-term the EU's external cultural funding activities must imply a strong involvement of local partners - including civil society organisations - adaptation of programmes to local realities and a due consideration of the post-funding period for implementation and evaluation of projects;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the COVID-19 crisis has shown that the cultural and creative sectors, normally vectors of social cohesion, are among the most vulnerable sectors;

Amendment 30 #

Beata KEMPA, Ryszard CZARNECKI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses the need to develop new global financing mechanisms to support transparent and bottom-up led approaches to international cultural relations;

Amendment 31 #

3a. Calls for the development of new models of cooperation between the EU and developing countries, in particular with their national cultural institutions;

Amendment 32 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls for embracing the preferential treatment for developing countries as defined by the 2005 UNESCO Convention for the promotion and the protection of the diversity of cultural expressions to create an equitable global cultural sector;

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls for the upcoming Youth Action Plan in international Action to include specific measures and programmes that contribute to expose the youth of both the EU and the Global South to other cultures and languages;

Amendment 34 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage is an essential factor in ensuring its transmission to future generations; recalls that restoring cultural works and artefacts, as well as preserving traditional and ancestral know-how, including, for example, in the area of agriculture or, in some cases, medicine, promotes the respect and mutual understanding of the value of different cultures, but also promotes peace, reconciliation and dialogue; encourages the EU and its Member States to facilitate dialogue and share best practices on the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage in the framework of the NDICI – Global Europe Regulation.

Amendment 35 #

Catherine CHABAUD

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage is an essential factor in ensuring its transmission to future generations; recalls that restoring cultural works and artefacts promotes the respect and mutual understanding of the value of different cultures, but also promotes peace, reconciliation and dialogue; encourages the EU and its Member States to facilitate dialogue and share best practices on the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage in the framework of the NDICI – Global Europe Regulation. underlines the unique role of indigenous peoples and their importance in implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation measures, owing to their knowledge, traditional activities and complex cultural relationships with marine and coastal living and ecosystems.

Amendment 36 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural and natural heritage is an essential factor in ensuring its transmission to future generations; recalls that restoring cultural works and artefacts promotes the respect and mutual understanding of the value of different cultures, but also promotes peace, reconciliation and dialogue; encourages the EU and its Member States to facilitate dialogue and share best practices on the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural and natural heritage in the framework of the NDICI – Global Europe Regulation.

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage is an essential factor in ensuring its transmission to future generations, in particular for young people; recalls that restoring cultural works and artefacts promotes the respect and mutual understanding of the value of different cultures, but also promotes peace, reconciliation and dialogue; encourages the EU and its Member States to facilitate dialogue and share best practices on the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage in the framework of the NDICI – Global Europe Regulation.

Amendment 38 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Notes that protection of cultural heritage needs to be an integrated part of the EU external actions as a tool to promote peace and stability, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue and mutual cultural understanding;

Amendment 39 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Insists on the importance for the EU to enhance the protection and promotion of cultural and natural heritage paying particular attention to environmental and wildlife protection while at the same level respecting the integrity and interests of indigenous people and local communities living alongside nature and wildlife on their ancestral land; calls for the NDICI- Global Europe instrument to provide adequate financing to strengthen the protection of cultural and natural heritage, with respect to the rights, including land rights of Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLCs);

Amendment 4 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that culture is a key element of sustainable development and an integral component of its social, economic and environmental dimensions, and long- term societal changes; recalls that culture is instrumental in the implementation of the 2030 UN Agenda and calls for strengthening the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through participation in enhanced dialogue, professional networks, exchanges, the recognition of the professionalism of authors, artists, cultural and creative operators, and multi- stakeholder partnerships; underlines that youth exchanges, city twinning, and partnerships in the professional field have been important vehicles to foster intercultural understanding and should be promoted by the EU in its development and foreign policies;

Amendment 40 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for enhanced cooperation between the private sector and public actors on the protection and preservation of cultural heritage in partner countries; recalls that the private sector contributes to the administration, financing and protection of cultural sites;

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the interests of developing countries, which are very often despoiled of their cultural heritage as a result of conflicts, to be respected, protected and taken into account in the action plan against illicit trafficking of cultural property for 2022-2025;

Amendment 42 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Underlines that lack of proper infrastructure, professional knowledge and trained professionals can be a barrier of proper management of cultural heritage and artefacts;

Amendment 43 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Condemns any human action that damages or destroys cultural heritage; calls on the EU to promote and support cooperation with partner countries, in particular regional and local authorities and cultural actors, in order to better protect cultural heritage from conflict- related destruction and from natural disasters and climate change-related risks;

Amendment 44 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls for adequate funding for the protection, conservation and restauration of cultural heritage under the NDICI- Global Europe, particularly in conflict prone areas;

Amendment 45 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls on the EU to step up the fight against the trafficking of cultural heritage and to contribute to efforts to ensure the return and restitution of cultural goods;

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Welcomes the acknowledgement by certain Member States of the need to return cultural works and artefacts to their places of origin; calls for all Member States to continue or initiate processes for the restitution of cultural works and artefacts in a more consistent and timely manner; calls for the NDICI- Global Europe Regulation to effectively support the implementation of agreements for the return of cultural property to their countries of origin and to present the results of actions in this field to the European Parliament as part of the scrutiny process of the instrument; encourages the development of EU guidelines on restitution to encourage the development of necessary research, studies and exchanges for the establishment of coherent programmes for restitution of cultural works and artefacts to their countries of origin;

Amendment 47 #

Beata KEMPA, Ryszard CZARNECKI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Reaffirms the importance of culture for diplomacy; as in a globalised, interconnected world where countries are increasingly interdependent, it can be critical to fostering peace and stability by supporting mutual understanding, trust and exposure to cultural diversity, points out that through culture, international partnerships are strengthened by enhancing international relations in many areas of cooperation;

Amendment 48 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses that the EU should develop deeper and more effective international relations in the area of culture based on partnership, long-term engagement and mutual interest and understanding;

Amendment 49 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Emphasises that importance of the exchange of ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture among nations and their people in order to foster mutual understanding; reminds that popular culture and art play an important role in the how the country, nation or the issue is perceived; emphasises the role of cultural works for cross-linguistic and cross- border understanding; stresses that cultural works such as films or literature create links between different cultures; therefore international co-productions should be promoted;

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that culture is a key element of sustainable development and an integral component of its social, economic and environmental dimensions, and long- term societal changes; recalls that culture is instrumental in the implementation of the 2030 UN Agenda and calls for strengthening the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through participation in enhanced dialogue, professional networks and multi- stakeholder partnerships and supporting civil society organisations, in order to leave no one behind and support the aims and principles of the 2030 UN Agenda;

Amendment 50 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls for the promotion of artistic freedom of expression as a value and an endeavour of the European Union, nurturing free dialogue as well as exchange of good practices at international level;

Amendment 51 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Underlines the importance of protecting minority and indigenous languages in developing countries, since these languages are essential for ensuring the continuation and transmission of culture, the preservation of customs, the knowledge of history, the protection of the cultural identity and dignity of indigenous peoples and safeguard their traditional heritage;

Amendment 52 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Calls for the integration of adequate training, knowledge exchange and sharing of best practices into EU initiatives, including initiatives supporting education and exchange programmes;

Amendment 53 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Calls for the creation of a Cultural Visa Programme, along the lines of the existing Scientific Visa Programme, for third-country nationals, artists and other professionals in the cultural field with the aim of fostering cultural relations and eliminating obstacles to mobility in the cultural sector;

Amendment 54 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses that the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential value of certain national and ancestral traditions in the area of medicine, for example in the case of Madagascar, subject to adequate scientific evidence, and that such know-how and traditions are an integral part of national cultures and must, as far as possible, be promoted and preserved for the needs of future generations;

Amendment 55 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Welcomes, in this regard, initiatives such as the African Traditional Medicine Day, launched in 2003, and the national policies adopted in this area by around 40 African countries, and recalls that ‘80% of the [African] population relies on traditional medicine for their basic health needs’1a; _________________ 1 a https://www.afro.who.int/regional- director/speeches-messages/african- traditional-medicine-day-2022

Amendment 6 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that culture, which incorporates intangible heritage (in particular, ancestral traditions and know- how) and natural and built heritage, is a key element of sustainable development and an integral component of its social, economic and environmental dimensions, and long- term societal changes; recalls that culture is instrumental in the implementation of the 2030 UN Agenda and calls for strengthening the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through participation in enhanced dialogue, professional networks and multi- stakeholder partnerships;

Amendment 7 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that culture is a key element of human development and a driver of sustainable development and an integral component of its social, economic and environmental dimensions~~, and~~; recalls that culture can create jobs, stimulate growth and foster long- term societal changes; recalls that culture is instrumental in the implementation of the 2030 UN Agenda and calls for strengthening the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through participation in enhanced dialogue, professional networks and multi- stakeholder partnerships;

Amendment 8 #

Stéphane BIJOUX, Catherine CHABAUD, Jan-Christoph OETJEN, Charles GOERENS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that culture is a key element of sustainable development and an integral component of its social, economic and environmental dimensions, and long- term societal changes and evolution, and of the stability and sustainability of communities; recalls that culture is instrumental in the implementation of the 2030 UN Agenda and calls for strengthening the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through participation in enhanced and inclusive dialogue, professional networks and multi- stakeholder partnerships;

Amendment 9 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Recalls that international cultural cooperation is a lever for promoting EU values, including democracy, the rule of law, freedoms, human rights and gender equality, and that it offers the EU, its Member States and partner countries the opportunity to learn from cultures, good practices and know-how, to stimulate the development of cultural and creative industries and tourism, to offer employment opportunities and to strengthen social cohesion;

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2022/09/21 AFET 142 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to the Council Conclusions of 23 May 2018 on the need to bring cultural heritage to the fore across policies in the EU,

Amendment 10 #

Draft opinion
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to Resolution CM/Res(2010)53 adopted by the Council of Europe establishing an Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes,

Amendment 100 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Stresses that Member States' engagement with third countries should be encouraged and facilitated, including in situations where they do not have diplomatic or consular representation;

Amendment 101 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Recalls that authoritarian countries, under the pretence of cultural cooperation, attempt to perform influence operations to shape or confuse the European public debate, undermine the European democratic values and depict themselves in a positive way; recalls similarly that travelling to authoritarian countries to develop a cultural project expose cultural stakeholders to malign influence; recalls for instance China’s attempts to pressure and censor the museum of Nantes in relation to an exhibition on Genghis Kahn initially planned for 2020 or the role played by Confucius Institutes enabling China to exercise strict control over all topics related to China in the field of research and teaching, thus constituting a violation of the constitutional protection of academic freedom and autonomy;

Amendment 102 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Highlights the strategic importance for the EU to further strengthen the partnership with the EU National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) network and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), including via the allocation of additional financial resources;

Amendment 103 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Welcomes the cooperation with international and regional organisations focussing on cultural relations and cultural heritage preservation; calls to increase interaction with local actors, including religious communities and faith-based organisations;

Amendment 104 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls on the Commission to further strengthen the international dimension of EU programs(Erasmus, Horizon, specific delegation programmes, and the global leadership programme) and to provide adequate financial resources; recalls, in this regard, the crucial role that EU programmes in the fields of culture have as core elements in tackling disinformation and foreign interferences in third countries;

Amendment 105 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls on the EEAS to produce a study into the prevalence and influence of malicious state actors in the European cultural sector as well as in international cultural relations in which the EU is involved; calls in addition the EU, its Member States and stakeholders of the cultural sector to apply the utmost vigilance when engaging in international cultural cooperation;

Amendment 106 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4d. Condemns Azerbaijan’s continued policy of erasing and denying the Armenian cultural heritage in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, in violation of international law and the decision of the ICJ of 7 December 2021; condemns further the renewed aggression of Azerbaijan on Armenia, which further puts at risk Armenian cultural heritage; calls for the EU to actively pressure Azerbaijan to end hostilities and to participate in efforts to protect cultural heritage at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh, notably by deploying mechanisms to facilitate UNESCO’s fact-finding mission;

Amendment 107 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for a~~n update to~~ cost-benefit analysis and independent audit to be carried out focusing on the 2016 EU strategy for international cultural relations ~~with a view to~~; questions the need for 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 108 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

Amendment 109 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for an update to the 2016 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.; calls for the strategy update to incorporate a call for the EU to include protection of cultural heritage in its external action, which will also help to preserve peace and promote mutual tolerance and respect;

Amendment 11 #

Draft opinion
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 1 June 2017 on combating anti-Semitism,

Amendment 110 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5

5. Calls for an update to the 2016 EU strategy for international cultural relations with a view to establishing a coherent and ambitious permanent structural and institutional EU dimension and developing and implementing a overarching long- term strategy to be integrated permanently and horizontally within the EU’s external action toolbox.

Amendment 111 #

Draft opinion
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)

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;

Amendment 113 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to strengthen cooperation with the Council of Europe, particularly with the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, which in addition to its relevance for EU countries in terms of culture and tourism also constitutes an institutional tool for consolidating cultural relations with third countries, with a view to promoting the fundamental values of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and the sustainable regional development of lesser-known destinations, at the same time as preserving their shared cultural heritage;

Amendment 114 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for increased protection of cultural and religious heritage in the context of armed conflict, including Russia’s war against Ukraine; calls for proper international investigation of the attacks of the Russian Federation on Ukraine’s cultural and religious heritage; calls for establishing a special fund to support the reconstruction of Ukraine’s destroyed and seriously damaged cultural and religious heritage;

Amendment 115 #

Lívia JÁRÓKA, Kinga GÁL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Emphasises the importance of focusing not only on the protection of cultural heritage, but also on the development of cultural heritage, which is of particular significance for the survival of minorities, their spatial representation in this respect, the survival of their linguistic dialects and the passing on of their cultural traditions;

Amendment 116 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Encourages Member States and partner countries to engage in constructive dialogue and cooperation for the repatriation of looted artefacts around the globe to the countries of origin or former owners;

Amendment 117 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for a further fight against international illicit trafficking of cultural goods and stresses the need to accelerate the digitisation of cultural and heritage resources;

Amendment 118 #

Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Points out that culture should not be seen as a commercial commodity like any other and should not be subject to market imperatives;

Amendment 119 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for a thorough independent audit and cost-benefit analysis of all expenditure relating to culture from the EU budget;

Amendment 12 #

— having regard to the EU Action Plan against trafficking in cultural goods,

Amendment 120 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls for the creation of an EU cultural institute, similar to the Member States’ institutes like Goethe, Cervantes, Alliance Francaise, etc. with specific mission to promote the European languages, increase knowledge of European culture and disseminate European values;

Amendment 121 #

Lívia JÁRÓKA, Kinga GÁL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Emphasises the need to pay particular attention to the groups who are marginalised and live with multiple disadvantages inside and outside the European Union, especially in the Balkan region, such as members of the Roma minorities, whose cultural heritage is not sufficiently supported at all in this respect for heritage protection and future generations;

Amendment 122 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls for a more systematic involvement of religious and cultural actors in the joint conflict analyses for countries that are at risk of or facing conflict or instability, as stipulated in the Council conclusions on the integrated approach to external conflicts and crises of 22 January 2018;

Amendment 123 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Deplores the attacks on monuments of European historical figures seen in various countries around the world and calls on the EU to ensure the protection, conservation and defence of European cultural and historical heritage in all multilateral forums;

Amendment 124 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls for the creation of “100 Tourist EU Sites” initiative that will include 100 places of interest from all Member States, including a booklet to collect stamps from those sites to promote EU culture and increase tourist flows;

Amendment 125 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls on the Member States, the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs to promote cooperation with third countries and relevant international organisations, in particular UNESCO;

Amendment 126 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Calls Member States and partner countries to include a culture and trade nexus in their trade negotiations and monitor its implementation in order to further promote cultural dialogue and cooperation;

Amendment 127 #

Lívia JÁRÓKA, Kinga GÁL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls for the provision of priority support programmes that explore and demonstrate in all statuses of society the centuries of historical, cultural and artistic contribution to society of Roma people, for the majority and themselves, that particularly promote social dialogue between various communities, and most importantly between Roma and non- Roma people, that can replace feelings and experiences of exclusion with cultural pride as well as social inclusion positively promoting individual and community identity and self-identity, which could have a clearly positive impact on policy aspects of education, employment, healthcare and housing too;

Amendment 128 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls on third countries to cooperate with the relevant international organisations, especially the Council of Europe and UNESCO, in order to prevent and combat illicit trafficking and the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage, while actively taking action to preserve its structural rigidity and restore its original form;

Amendment 129 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls for better integrating cultural and religious aspects and intensifying cooperation with relevant actors in the framework of EU’s bilateral and regional partnerships and related policies, notably with respect to Africa, Latin America, Asia, as well as the Western Balkans and EU’s Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood;

Amendment 13 #

Draft opinion
Citation 8 b (new)

— having regard to the UN General Assembly resolution of 26 January 2021 on promoting a culture of peace and tolerance to safeguard religious sites,

Amendment 130 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Urges the Member States, the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs to increase their efforts to achieve common EU positions in multilateral for a and networks and, where appropriate, to speak with one voice on issues that have an impact on international cultural relations;

Amendment 131 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Deplores the terrorist attacks on sites forming part of world cultural heritage; calls on the EU institutions to work together with the United Nations and in particular with UNESCO for their protection and restoration;

Amendment 132 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. Calls all the Member States to sign and ratify the Nicosia Convention, the treaty on Offences relating to Cultural Property;

Amendment 133 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Stresses that improving international cultural relations should always be supported by efforts to strengthen teaching and learning about culture within the EU and its Member States, fostering intercultural and interreligious competences within the geopolitical dimension of the European Education Area and the European Research Area;

Amendment 134 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Stresses that the Member States and the Commission should facilitate, through an appropriate institutional and legal framework and support measures, the mobility of artists and cultural professionals between the EU and third countries;

Amendment 135 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls on third countries to respect fully the historical and cultural character of cultural and religious monuments and symbols, especially those classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites;

Amendment 136 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls on the Commission to use all available levers to prevent the destruction of cultural heritage in conflict zone areas;

Amendment 137 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Calls on the Turkish authorities to fully respect the historical and cultural character of cultural and religious monuments and symbols, especially those classified as UNESCO World Heritage Sites; calls on Turkey to fully respect its international obligation to protect monuments of Alevi, Christian, Armenian, Pontian and Jewish origin;

Amendment 138 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Calls for the creation of specific ad-hoc instruments favouring the continuation of cultural exchange programmes between the EU and third countries in conflict situations, in order to preserve people-to-people contacts and enable cultural cooperation in arts, academia, research and other relevant areas;

Amendment 139 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)

5e. Stresses the importance of developing partnerships with international organisations and institutions that promote the role of culture and cultural heritage in peace making in conflict and post-conflict areas;

Amendment 14 #

Draft opinion
Citation 8 b (new)

— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 7 June 2022 on the 2021 Commission Report on Turkey,

Amendment 140 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)

5f. Condemns the conversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul in 2020, a monument internationally recognised as a historic World Heritage site and a universal symbol of Christianity, Chora Church in Istanbul and Hagia Sophia in Trabzon in 2013 into mosques by the Turkish authorities; notes with concern the recent developments with regard to the historic Panagia Soumela Monastery, which is included, on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List; recognises that the protection of cultural heritage is key to promote good neighbourly relations and maintain peace and stability in the region;

Amendment 141 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)

5g. Reiterates its call on Turkey to respect the role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Orthodox Christians all over the world and to recognise its legal personality and the public use of the ecclesiastical title of the Ecumenical Patriarch;

Amendment 142 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)

5h. Stresses the need to eliminate restrictions on the training, appointment and succession of members of the clergy, to allow the reopening of the Halki Seminary, which has been closed since 1971, and to remove all obstacles to enable it to function properly;

Amendment 15 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas culture has major potential to promote ~~the EU’s values, solidify its~~European civilisation in all the diversity of the nations of which it is formed and solidify their national identityies and ~~contribute to~~heritages in order to contribute to its influence and the fulfilment of ~~its~~the objectives of the European Union’s Member States worldwide, as well as addressing global challenges;

Amendment 16 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas cultur~~e has major potential to promote the EU’s values, solidify its identity and contribute to the fulfilment of its objectives worldwide, as well as addressing global challeng~~al diversity and intercultural dialogue form an integral part of the European Union's values and play an important role in promoting human rights, artistic freedom, respect, mutual understanding, conflict prevention, reconciliation and contribute to democratisation, good governance and more peaceful societies;

Amendment 17 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas culture has major potential to promote ~~the EU’s values, solidify its identity and contribute to the fulfilment of its objectives worldwide, as well as addressing global challeng~~European values;

Amendment 18 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas culture has major potential to promote the EU’s values, solidify its identity and contribute to the fulfilment of its objectives worldwide, as well as addressing global challenges; whereas culture is a very important driver for tourists visiting Europe from third countries and whereas it also plays an important economic role in creating jobs and contributing to regional equilibrium;

Amendment 19 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

Amendment 2 #

Harald VILIMSKY, Jaak MADISON

Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to Article 8(2) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,

Amendment 20 #

Emmanuel MAUREL

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas culture has major potential to promote the EU’s humanist values, solidify its identity and contribute to the fulfilment of its objectives worldwide, as well as addressing global challenges;

Amendment 21 #

Draft opinion
Recital A

A. whereas culture has major potential to promote ~~the EU’s~~European values, solidify its identity and contribute to the fulfilment of its objectives worldwide, as well as addressing global challenges;

Amendment 22 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas culture and religion are deeply rooted in local realities and key determinants of societal and personal bonds in many of the EU’s partner countries and regions, including in Africa, Latin America, Asia and EU’s Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood; whereas developing a profound understanding of these realities and taking them fully into account could contribute to enhancing the comprehensiveness and fairness of EU’s partnerships, and to increasing the overall effectiveness of EU’s External Action;

Amendment 23 #

Kinga GÁL

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas protecting and promoting cultural heritage is an imperative for long lasting peace and security as cultural heritage is a vector for peace, reconciliation, mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue and sustainable development;

Amendment 24 #

Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas supporting culture as an engine for sustainable social and economic development benefits the EU's relationship with its partners around the world;

Amendment 25 #

Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas EU efforts towards forward-looking international cultural relations and cultural diplomacy should strive to promote values such as solidarity and fraternity, involving actors at all levels of public institutions, civil society, as well as Churches, religious associations or communities;

Amendment 26 #

Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas cultural and religious heritage is one of the most valuable drivers of social cohesion, intercultural encounter as well as economic and human development, and peace;

Amendment 27 #

B. whereas ~~clearly targeted resources for international cultural relations would greatly enhance its ability to fully develop~~the Creative Europe programme has funded the EUNIC network since 2014; notes that over EUR 5.6 million has been granted in financial support to the network by the EU since 2016; calls for a special audit and cost- benefit-analysis of the entire cultural relations approach of the EU, including preparatory and pilot projects such as the European Spaces of Culture (formerly European 'Houses' of Culture);

Amendment 28 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas clearly targeted resources for international cultural relations would greatly enhance its ability to fully develop and support the EU's intercultural relations as a valuable component of the diplomatic toolbox;

Amendment 29 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas clearly targeted resources for international cultural relations would greatly enhance its ability to fully develop; whereas culture can become a driver to promote sustainable social and economic development;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Citation 2 a (new)

— having regard to Article 167(3) and (4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),

Amendment 30 #

Draft opinion
Recital B

B. whereas clearly targeted resources for international cultural relations would greatly enhance its ability to fully develop, unleashing its full potential to foster mutual understanding among peoples and nations worldwide;

Amendment 31 #

Draft opinion
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 32 #

Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the Preparatory action - European Houses of Culture - was funded by way of a grant of EUR 750 000 awarded in 2020 to the EU National Institutes for Culture , a Brussels based NGO that in 2018 received EUR 750 000 for the same purpose;

Amendment 33 #

Draft opinion
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 34 #

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the EU ~~needs to engage in international cultural relations using its own instruments to shape the cultural face of the EU worldwide and complement the work of Member States’ cultural institutes abroad~~should let Member States’ cultural institutes work without interference;

Amendment 35 #

Harald VILIMSKY, Jaak MADISON

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the EU needs to consistently scale-up its engagement in international cultural relations devoting sufficient resources and funds to this end, and using its own instruments to shape the cultural face of the EU worldwide and complement the work of Member States’ cultural institutes abroad;

Amendment 36 #

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas ~~the EU~~Member States needs to engage in international cultural relations using ~~its~~their own instruments to shape ~~the~~Europe’s cultural face ~~of the EU worldwide and complement the work of Member States’ cultural institutes abroad~~worldwide;

Amendment 37 #

Draft opinion
Recital C

C. whereas the ~~EU needs to engage in international cultural relations using its own instruments to shape the cultural face of the EU worldwide and complement the work of Member States’ cultural institutes abroad~~'European 'Houses' of Culture' project was launched to test and implement innovative models of cooperation between European actors and local stakeholders in non-EU countries;

Amendment 38 #

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas Article 167(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union states that the Union and the Member States shall foster cooperation with third countries and the competent international organisations in the sphere of culture, in particular the Council of Europe;

Amendment 39 #

Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the preservation, protection and promotion of cultural heritage is an important driver for peace, democracy and sustainable development, promotes tolerance, reconciliation and cultural coexistence;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Citation 3 a (new)

— having regard to the Council Conclusions on the Work Plan for Culture 2019-2022 of 21 December 2018,

Amendment 40 #

Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas the Cultural Routes certified by the Council of Europe pass through neighbouring countries to the east and south of the EU, candidate countries and also through some EU partner countries outside Europe, thus helping to strengthen the links between the EU and all those countries;

Amendment 41 #

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas illiberal ~~and~~values, aultho~~ritari~~ugh claimed as universal, are increasingly marginalised and re~~gimes 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;~~ cognised as a weapon of cultural hegemony deployed by the US and the EU under international rules of which they proclaim themselves the guarantors, but which are in reality dictated, interpreted and, where necessary, circumvented by them; whereas such a contention prompts a political reaction by liberal regimes which, in order to conceal the struggle for influence in which they are engaged, have recourse to a rhetoric of demonisation and present their own principles as true and indisputable;

Amendment 42 #

Draft opinion
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 43 #

Draft opinion
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 in order to combat such claims it is necessary for the EU to further invest in strategic communication and visibility campaigns to promote shared values and cultural heritage;

Amendment 44 #

Harald VILIMSKY, Jaak MADISON, Susanna CECCARDI

Draft opinion
Recital D

D. whereas ~~illiberal and authoritarian regimes attempt to redef~~culture, being first and foremost a value ine i~~nternational rules and values by challenging their universality and claiming them to be a weapon of cultural hegemony deployed by the EU~~tself, has positive socio-economic effects, improves the quality of life, and its positive role in external relations is gaining increasing recognition;

Amendment 45 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas worldwide cultural theft continues to remain a problem in the EU; whereas after 1974 in Northern Cyprus more than 60,000 cultural objects were taken abroad through looting and by vandalism on the black market; whereas more than 550 Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries have been robbed of their works of art and destroyed or converted into mosques; whereas this is intended to deliberately destroy the Christian Western cultural heritage;

Amendment 46 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas, in the context of conflicts and wars worldwide, there have been attacks on cultural heritage, particularly on religious sites; whereas this destruction of cultural heritage makes communities more vulnerable and restricts the exercise of their right to freedom of belief as well as freedom of thought and expression;

Amendment 47 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas cultural heritage has a universal dimension as a testimony of history inseparable from peoples’ identity, which the international community has to protect and preserve for future generations; whereas cultural diversity play an important role in the promotion of human rights, conflict prevention, reconciliation and counter-extremism;

Amendment 48 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas as part of its war on Ukraine, the Russian Federation is seriously damaging and destroying Ukraine’s cultural and religious heritage; whereas deliberate attacks on cultural and religious heritage in armed conflict are considered war crimes under international law;

Amendment 49 #

Maria ARENA

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas a special system known as the ‘cultural exception’ was created in 1993 by the EU in order to protect audiovisual works and productions from commercial free trade rules;

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to its resolutions of 28 April2015 on the destruction of cultural sites perpetrated by ISIS/Da’esh and of 10March 2022 on the destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno- Karabakh,

Amendment 50 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas cultural production has added value when it is based on pluralistic, free and democratic societies;

Amendment 51 #

Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas intercultural dialogue is key to promote peace and fight radicalisation in Member States and in partner countries;

Amendment 52 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Draft opinion
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas anti-Semitism is against Europe’s system of values and principles and its condemnation needs to be promoted in all aspects of the EU's international cultural relations;

Amendment 53 #

Anna-Michelle ASIMAKOPOULOU, Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI, Loucas FOURLAS, Vangelis MEIMARAKIS, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS, Stelios KYMPOUROPOULOS, Maria SPYRAKI, Emmanouil FRAGKOS

Dc. whereas Christian minorities in partner countries are considered an integral part of Europe’s culture and need to be respected;

Amendment 54 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Acknowledges the efforts~~Notes the cost of the Commission and the European External Action Service actions to implement the EU strategy for international cultural relations~~, demonstrating the EU’s added value and advancing cultural cooperation with partner countries~~;

Amendment 55 #

Draft opinion
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 56 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Acknowledges the efforts of the Commission and the European External Action Service to implement the EU strategy for international cultural relations, demonstrating the EU’s added value and advancing cultural cooperation and relations with partner countries;

Amendment 57 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Council, European External Action Service (EEAS) and Commission to mainstream culture as a strategic pillar through all EU’s external action policy areas; supports the inclusion of culture in all existing and future bilateral and multilateral agreements, with due respect for the commitments made under the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity;

Amendment 58 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Encourages the European Commission and the EEAS to properly consider the added value that a consistent involvement of civil society organisations in all efforts intended to foster cultural diplomacy can represent, and to stimulate an effective engagement of these actors in all EU endeavours;

Amendment 59 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for improved coherence of EU positions and actions at multilateral level in order to enhance the EU's effectiveness as a force for greater cohesion in international relations,

Amendment 6 #

Draft opinion
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to the new European Consensus on Development: "Our world, our dignity, our future" of 7 June 2017,

Amendment 60 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Underlines the need to achieve synergies and complementarities between the actions undertaken by the EU and its Member States in third countries, including through their diplomatic and consular representations and the EUNIC network;

Amendment 61 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes the development of the Cultural Relations Platform and the joint implementation of programmes allowing cultural actors and public stakeholders to develop~~Questions the need to develop a EU funded Cultural Relations Platform; welcomes cooperation between cultural actors to develop and promote innovative ideas and concrete projects, ~~fin~~enhance cultural relations and facilitate networks; emphasizes that these activities do not require funding from the EU budget to be successful;

Amendment 62 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes 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; welcomes the establishment of focal points in the EU Delegations to that effect; calls on the EEAS and Commission to further strengthen their role with the objective to better coordinate EU’s cultural outreach and cooperation in partner countries, aligned with EU’s foreign policy objectives; calls on the EEAS and Commission to enhance the specific skills of the focal points needed to perform their duties at the highest level;

Amendment 63 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the development of the Cultural Relations Platform and the joint implementation of programmes allowing cultural actors and public stakeholders to get in touch and share expertise and best practices, develop innovative ideas and concrete projects, finance cultural relations and facilitate networks both within and outside EU borders; reaffirms the paramount importance of involving European cultural and education institutes in the activities of the Cultural Relations Platform;

Amendment 64 #

Draft opinion
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)

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 66 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Calls for clarification and awareness raising, including on the role and mutual expectations of the EU institutions and Member States, as well as their diplomatic and consular representations, cultural institutes and networks, such as EUNIC, and other stakeholders;

Amendment 67 #

Draft opinion
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)

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)

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 7 #

Draft opinion
Citation 5 a (new)

— having regard to the Council conclusions of 22January 2018 on the integrated approach to external conflicts and crises,

Amendment 70 #

Draft opinion
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)

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

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 73 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the development of strategies based on international cultural relations for EU delegations and other EU actors in their relations with third countries; urges that joint actions be implemented by the EU delegations, the diplomatic missions of the Member States and national cultural institutes to promote European culture in third countries;

Amendment 74 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the development of strategies based on international cultural relations for EU delegations and other EU actors in their relations with third countries; calls for better cooperation between the EU and third countries in protection of cultural heritage and fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods;

Amendment 75 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the development of ~~strategies based on international cultural relation~~cost- saving strategies for EU delegations and other EU actors in their relations with third countries;

Amendment 76 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the development of strategies based on international cultural relations for EU delegations and other EU actors in their relations with third countries such as UNESCO, Council of Europe, Interpol, the World Customs Organisation and International Council of Museums;

Amendment 77 #

Harald VILIMSKY, Jaak MADISON, Susanna CECCARDI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the development of scalable and far-reaching strategies based on international cultural relations for EU delegations and other EU actors in their relations with third countries;

Amendment 78 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Condemns any destruction or theft of Christian cultural goods; calls for the European Commission to make efforts to return Christian cultural goods, such as those that were black-marketed after the Turkish occupation of the northern part of Cyprus, to their origins; condemns any conversion of Greek Orthodox or Christian monasteries and churches into mosques; calls on the Commission to take an appropriate stance by officially condemning especially the theft of Christian cultural goods and the conversion of Christian or Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries; calls for a reconsideration of cultural relations, in particular with those countries which continue to endanger the Christian cultural heritage worldwide through such practices;

Amendment 79 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Urges the EEAS and Commission to step-up their efforts in the fight against illegal trafficking, looting and destruction in cultural property as well as to support Member States’ actions to conduct the repatriation of stolen cultural property to its rightful owners in a evidence-based and mutual understanding approach;

Amendment 8 #

Draft opinion
Citation 6 a (new)

— having regard to the Nicosia Convention1a on Criminal Offences against Cultural Property, _________________ 1a https://www.coe.int/en/web/conventions/fu ll-list?module=treaty- detail&treatynum=221

Amendment 80 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for greater focus in protecting and preserving cultural heritage after conflicts and crises as it can help to protect identity, develop mutual understanding and create the foundations for sustainable recovery, reconciliation and lasting peace in post-conflict environments;

Amendment 81 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for European cultural diversity, including regional languages, to be emphasised in these strategies, to promote a message of respect for minorities and cultural diversity worldwide;

Amendment 82 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Encourages Member States to include an aspect of international cultural relations in their regular foreign policy reporting, including in the context of the global strategy;

Amendment 83 #

Emmanuel MAUREL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Calls for a strengthening of EU exchange programmes and the development of EU artists’ residencies globally;

Amendment 84 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the EU to invest through its instruments in educational programs in partner countries and to cooperate with youth organisations and educational institutions on raising awareness and the development of necessary skills and knowledge to preserve cultural heritage;

Amendment 85 #

3b. Calls for the diffusion of world cultures to be further encouraged in EU countries in order to foster cultural exchanges that lead to mutual understanding;

Amendment 86 #

Harald VILIMSKY, Jaak MADISON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 87 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

Amendment 88 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for ~~the allocation of the necessary~~ budgetary and personnel resources tofor the EU’s international cultural relations and cultural diplomacy ~~in order to facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academia in third count~~ambitions to be reduced substantially as citizens, businesses and Member States are hard pressed by multiple crises;

Amendment 89 #

Draft opinion
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 facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academia in third countries; calls for consideration to be given to the possible creation of a special fund for the recovery, protection, restoration and promotion of European cultural heritage, which could also contribute to the recovery of global cultural heritage;

Amendment 9 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 9 March 2022 on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation,

Amendment 90 #

Draft opinion
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 facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academia in third countries; calls on the EEAS and Commission to consider the feasibility of introducing a dedicated chapter for international cultural relations in the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe;

Amendment 91 #

Draft opinion
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 92 #

Emmanuel MAUREL

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Calls for the allocation of the necessary budgetary and personnel resources to the Member States’ and the EU’s international cultural relations and cultural diplomacy in order to facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academia in third countries and to enhance and protect the work of authors and artists while ensuring that copyright and related rights are respected;

Amendment 93 #

Draft opinion
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 facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors, including public institutions, civil society, as well Churches, religious associations or communities and academia in third countries;

Amendment 94 #

Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU, Ramona STRUGARIU, Urmas PAET, Dragoş TUDORACHE, Georgios KYRTSOS

Amendment 95 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Condemns the deliberate destruction of cultural sites in Ukraine as a result of unprovoked and illegal Russian war of aggression; commends the efforts of volunteers, museum curators and cultural workers in Ukraine, as well as in the EU Member States, to rescue and protect artworks and artefacts belonging to Ukraine; calls on the EU and its Member States to support these efforts in maintaining and reconstruction of destroyed and damaged cultural sights, and to work in cooperation with international institutions to pressure Russia to return stolen artefacts from Ukraine;

Amendment 96 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Deplores the fact that ongoing conflicts continue to lead to the destruction, pillaging, looting of cultural heritage and trafficking of illicit cultural goods; urges the Council, Commission and EEAS to step up their action in protecting cultural heritage in conflict and crises zones, including by providing emergency support for its preservation and by considering targeted sanctions against actors identified as responsible for destruction, illegal trafficking, falsifying or damaging cultural heritage;

Amendment 97 #

Georgios KYRTSOS, Petras AUŠTREVIČIUS, Nathalie LOISEAU

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls to strengthen the cultural heritage component within the EU's instruments and work of its delegations; calls to implement the aforementioned component into current and future Common Security and Defence missions and operations in order to provide assistance and education to local partners in addressing security challenges related to the preservation and protection of cultural heritage and fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods;

Amendment 98 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Urges the Council, Commission and EEAS to step up their action in protecting cultural heritage in conflict and crises zones, including by providing emergency support for its preservation and by considering targeted sanctions against actors identified as responsible for destruction, illegal trafficking, falsifying or damaging cultural heritage;

Amendment 99 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls for the allocation of the resources required in order to strengthen the cultural rights of indigenous and native communities and peoples, and specifically the cultural rights of women who are victims of discrimination and do not have access to the resources they need to be able to exercise their rights;

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2022/10/12 CULT 340 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)

— having regard to the Final Declaration approved on 28-30 September 2022 by the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 2022,

Amendment 10 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 b (new)

— having regard to the report by the OMC Working Group of Member States’ Experts of 7 June 2021 entitled “Towards gender equality in the cultural and creative sectors”,

Amendment 100 #

Alexis GEORGOULIS, Dace MELBĀRDE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Marco ZULLO, Irena JOVEVA, Salima YENBOU, Niklas NIENASS, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Hannes HEIDE, Monica SEMEDO, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Andrey SLABAKOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. Is deeply concerned that the Creative Europe programme is underfinanced, despite its budget increase in the current MFF, with the necessary frontloading of the budget to the years 2021 and 2022 causing dramatic funding shortages in the following years, potentially bringing further harm to the cultural and creative sectors that have only slowly started recovering, and thus having a long-lasting negative impact on our European cultural ecosystem and its role in international cultural relations;

Amendment 101 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2b. Believes that the overall EU spending for culture falls far behind the actual needs in terms of both economic and societal regards, be it the Creative Europe programme or other indirect funding opportunities; calls upon the Commission and the Member States to acknowledge the multifaceted importance of culture to our society and economy when drafting budgets;

Amendment 102 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with satisfaction that synergies between different EU policies and programmes are being developed; encourages the Commission to continue harnessing these synergies; encourages closer synergies between cultural sector and education since culture facilitates education through experience-learning, as well as between culture and innovation and science, since culture functions as a catalyst to creativity and triggers out-of- the-box and innovation thinking; recalls in this respect the need to give sufficient public financial support to all professionals engaged in these contexts;

Amendment 103 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes with satisfaction that synergies between different EU policies and programmes are being developed; encourages the Commission to ~~continue harnessing these synergies~~intensify harnessing these synergies and promoting them publicly; insists that culture should be horizontally mainstreamed in all EU policies, especially the Green and the Digital transition policies, as culture is an enabler and facilitator for any individual or societal transition;

Amendment 104 #

3. Notes with satisfaction that synergies between different EU policies and programmes are being ~~developed; encourages the Commission to continue harnessing these synergies~~promoted, notably through Creative Europe, Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) and others; encourages the Commission to continue harnessing these synergies, with a view to maximising their positive effects, both in terms of substance and availability of funding; particularly, welcomes the mainstreaming of cultural heritage into other positions and policies of the EU;

Amendment 105 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

Amendment 106 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes ~~with satisfaction~~ that synergies between different EU policies and programmes are being developed; ~~encourages the Commission to continue harnessing these synergies;~~

Amendment 107 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Insists that freedom of artistic expression must remain guaranteed for all creators; invites the Commission to integrate freedom of artistic expression as self-standing indicator of the respect of the rule of law in its annual reports; invites the Commission and the EEAS to explore concrete paths to uphold the freedom of artistic expression of artists at risk, especially as consequences of wars and geopolitical instability;

Amendment 108 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Encourages the Commission to adequately follow-up on the Porto Santo Charter on cultural democracy, adopted under the Portuguese Presidency in 2021 and provide timely relevant information to the European Parliament and the public;

Amendment 109 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Invites the Commission to adequately follow-up on the Porto Santo Charter on cultural democracy, adopted under the Portuguese Presidency in 2021;

Amendment 11 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 a (new)

— having regard to the Final Declaration approved by the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 202216a, _________________ 16a https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ medias/fichiers/2022/09/6.MONDIACUL T_EN_DRAFT%20FINAL%20DECLAR ATION_FINAL_1.pdf

Amendment 110 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Asim ADEMOV, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Highlights the need for mutual cultural respect to be the basis for international cultural relations;

Amendment 111 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Reminds the Commission and the Member States of the commitments expressed through the ratification by the EU of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, concerning in particular mobility exchanges and the facilitation of travel to the Member States in line with the preferential treatment of artists and other cultural professionals and practitioners, as well as cultural goods and services from developing countries; calls on the Commission to propose ways to facilitate the mobility of cultural workers from third countries, particularly those coming from the Global South;

Amendment 112 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the Commission to integrate freedom of artistic expression as a self-standing indicator of the respect of the rule of law in its annual reports;

Amendment 113 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the setting up of the Voices of Culture Structured Dialogue ~~(SD); encourages more frequent and systematic exchanges between the SD and the OMC~~(SD), providing a platform for civil society organisations (CSOs) in the cultural sector to engage with the Commission and the OMC; encourages more frequent and systematic exchanges between the members of the SD and the OMC; calls on the Commission and the Member States to regularly follow-up on the recommendations put forward in final reports, conferences, workshops, and any other event organised within the OMC and SD structures; encourages the Member States to follow up on those recommendations with concrete policy changes and action plans;

Amendment 114 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the setting up of the Voices of Culture Structured Dialogue (SD); ~~encourages more frequent and systematic exchanges between the SD and the OMC~~acknowledges that the structured dialogue with civil society has facilitated trans-sectoral cooperation, networking and exchanges; highlights, however, the insufficient interactions between the OMC and the structured dialogue platforms and therefore encourages more frequent and systematic exchanges as well as broadened participation to include smaller Member States and all subsectors; recalls that national cultural organisations should be directly involved as much as possible in the work of the platforms;

Amendment 115 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the setting up of the Voices of Culture Structured Dialogue (SD); encourages more frequent and systematic exchanges between the SD and the OMC; calls for further relevant actions where individuals could also participate;

Amendment 116 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Reaffirms its strong commitment to gender equality and endorses gender mainstreaming as one of its official policy approaches to ensure it, reiterates the role that culture can play in the promotion of gender equality, and calls on the Commission to go beyond its proposal to introduce selection criteria that rewards projects guaranteeing gender equality in their organisation, to introducing monitoring and evaluation mechanisms for obtaining sufficient data on gender equality and gender mainstreaming in the beneficiaries of the different European programmes, and the possible improvement measures.

Amendment 117 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. In line with the Parliament resolution on the European Year of Cultural Heritage6a, asks the Commission and the Member States to review and update the European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage in order to ensure the protection of cultural heritage in post-pandemic Europe; stresses that it is important to continue building on this legacy with the appropriate resources; _________________ 6a OJ C 456, 10.11.2021, p. 24–33

Amendment 118 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Peter POLLÁK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Welcomes the Pilot Project - Establishing a European Heritage Hub to support a holistic and cost-effective follow-up of the European Year of Cultural Heritage;

Amendment 119 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Peter POLLÁK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Encourages the Commission to bring forward the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 to support the creation of more partnerships with the private, public and non-profit sectors for the preservation of cultural heritage;

Amendment 12 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Asim ADEMOV, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 36 a (new)

— having regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/1563 on the Marrakesh Treaty,

Amendment 120 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Invites the Member States to fully apply the principle enshrined in Art. 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and recognise the right to cultural, artistic and scientific life and related cultural rights as human rights for all; calls on the Member States to take all appropriate measures to eliminate any obstacle to the enjoyment of such rights, including but not limited to obstacles linked to socioeconomic characteristics, income, and physical accessibility, and to ensure the necessary conditions for everyone to engage freely in cultural activities;

Amendment 121 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote existing cultural and artistic activities, to develop new ones and to promote participation by citizens in these activities;

Amendment 122 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4b. Calls on the Commission to stress the importance and dignity of workers in the CCSI;

Amendment 123 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage women to become entrepreneurs in the CCSI; in view of the catalysing role that access to cultural and artistic activities plays in the process of both economic and cultural female emancipation, welcomes the predominantly female employment profile found in many parts of the CCSI; recognises the importance for women of access to cultural and artistic activities in contexts, both within Europe and outside it, where there is a high level of unemployment or disadvantage in terms of social conditions;

Amendment 124 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in ~~citizens’~~both active and passive participation of people in cultural and artistic activities, not only via communication and outreach campaigns, but also and predominantly via coherent, comprehensive policy measures and incentives, with a particular focus on sub- urban, rural and peripheral areas and marginalised socio-economic communities and disadvantaged and vulnerable groups; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy;

Amendment 125 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in ~~citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities~~accessibility to cultural and artistic activities for all citizens and to increase their participation; calls on the Member States to take appropriate measures to identify and eliminate obstacles to participation, including those linked to socio-economic characteristics, income and physical accessibility; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy;

Amendment 126 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy; calls on the Commission and Member States, to increase reaching out to new audiences and enhance active participation to cultural by strengthening the links between culture, education, innovation and research;

Amendment 127 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy, including by investing in culture in order to strengthen citizens' engagement, active participation, overall citizenship and interest to the state's affairs;

Amendment 128 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy, and to adopt a cultural rights approach integrating access and meaningful participation to culture for all, leaving no one behind;

Amendment 129 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy, with a special interest to education policy, by including culture in school curriculums in all stages of education;

Amendment 13 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the 2018 Commission A. communication on a new European agenda for culture (COM(2018)0267) and the 2016 Joint Communication towards an EU strategy for international cultural relations (JOIN(2016)0029) could have played an even more decisive role in shaping the EU’s and Member States’ cultural policies; whereas any European Agenda for Culture should focus on fostering social cohesion, dialogue and mutual understanding, therefore strongly supporting European integration; whereas culture is a public good and the cultural and creative sectors should be supported in the long run with ambitious policy frameworks, adequate public financing and an enabling environment, which would also include resilience tools proactively installed against any future crises; whereas the New European Agenda for Culture should aim at preserving, expanding and disseminating a vibrant and diverse European cultural scene fostering the participation of all, leaving no one behind;

Amendment 130 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy and to adopt a cultural rights approach shifting away from a narrow focus on access to meaningful participation;

Amendment 131 #

Gianantonio DA RE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities, including by adopting special financial instruments in support of local bodies; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy;

Amendment 132 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; ~~invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy;~~

Amendment 133 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Encourages the Member States to contribute to growth favourable to inclusion and to the creation of jobs and to promote and invest in citizens’ participation in cultural and artistic activities; invites the Member States to integrate cultural participation objectives in policy-making beyond cultural policy;

Amendment 134 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

Amendment 135 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Calls on the Member States to fully recognise the right to cultural, artistic and scientific life and related cultural rights as universal human rights, allowing all individuals to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share their benefits; calls on the Member States to promote the development of culture and technical research and to protect the landscape and the historical and artistic heritage, including in the interest of future generations, and to make full use of the potential offered by the EU’s funding, programmes and policies dedicated to culture and their synergies with other programmes; calls on the Member States to dedicate 2% of their budgets to culture, as the European Parliament has requested on many occasions; calls on the Member States to use funding from the Recovery and Resilience Facility to achieve their objectives in terms of cultural investment;

Amendment 136 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Stresses that data collection should be considered as a key cross-cutting priorities in the new Council Work Plan for Culture; in this regard regrets that the latest available data collected by Eurostat on cultural participation date back to 2015; given the drastic change that CCSI have undergone since then, notably due to theCOVID-19 pandemic as well as innovative technological developments, invites the Commission to set up a Eurostat survey on cultural participation and trends in the EU, collecting and analysing statistical data at different territorial scales (national, regional, etc.), with special attention to participation in sub-urban, rural and peripheral areas and within marginalised socio-economic communities and disadvantaged and vulnerable groups;

Amendment 137 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Highlights the social and societal importance of the international mobility of cultural creators such as authors, performers and artists; calls upon the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their role in the EU’s international relations; reiterates in this context its repeated calls urging the Commission to establish a European Status of the Artist, ensuring fair contractual situations and working conditions for everyone working in the cultural and creative sectors, and increasing opportunities for international mobility;

Amendment 138 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the importance of cultural programmes in integrating refugees and migrants into European societies, and encourages the European Commission and the Member States to continue to promote the actions stated in the European Commission’s New Agenda for Culture- Integrating refugees and other migrants;

Amendment 139 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Acknowledges the work undertaken by the Commission to harness the power of culture and cultural diversity for social cohesion and well-being, such as the workshop for the experts of the EU Member States on culture for social cohesion in November2020; recommends building on the outcomes and lessons learned from all relevant projects and workshops;

Amendment 14 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the 2018 Commission communication on a new European agenda for culture (COM(2018)0267) and the 2016 Joint Communication towards an EU strategy for international cultural relations (JOIN(2016)0029) have played a decisive role in shaping the EU’s and Member States’ cultural policies, both in their national and international dimension;

Amendment 140 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Acknowledges the work undertaken by the Commission to harness the power of culture and cultural diversity for social cohesion ~~and~~, well-being, while asking to work more on the culture's power to citizenship, participation, strengthening democracy, the digital and the green transition;

Amendment 141 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Acknowledges the work undertaken by the Commission to harness the power of culture and cultural diversity for social cohesion ~~and~~, well-being, participation and for strengthening democracy;

Amendment 142 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. supports the promotion of the cross-border dimension of the cultural and creative sectors, including small artists, supporting their ability to develop and encouraging cultural creativity in education and innovation to strengthen international cultural relations;

Amendment 143 #

Isabella ADINOLFI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Recognises the fundamental role of art and culture as an instrument for individual expression, particularly for individuals who are often victims of discrimination, such as women, minorities and members of the LGBTQI+ community;

Amendment 144 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. supports the preservation, promotion and protection of the cultural diversity of each society in a certain region or throughout the world; reminds different cultures to respect their differences;

Amendment 145 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most ~~disadvantaged groups in cultural activities and initiative~~marginalised and underrepresented groups in cultural activities and initiatives, with the ultimate objective of fostering a sense of belonging among all people, particularly young people, and encouraging them to feel more European via their participation in cultural activities fostering their knowledge of EU values; welcomes in this regard the launch of an independent study entitled “The importance of citizens’ participation in culture for civic engagement and democracy - policy lessons from international research”, and looks forward to its publication in November2022; encourages the Commission to share the results of the study and take the appropriate follow-up actions;

Amendment 146 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups in cultural activities and initiatives with particular, but not exclusive, reference to older people, those with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged;

Amendment 147 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups in cultural activities and initiatives; as well of persons living in the country side or outermost regions;

Amendment 148 #

Peter POLLÁK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups in cultural activities and initiatives;, not only as the passive receivers, but also as the active creators of those activities

Amendment 149 #

Gianantonio DA RE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups, and particularly persons with disabilities, in cultural activities and initiatives;

Amendment 15 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) fall short in explicitly addressing culture, despite culture being a global public good and both a cross-cutting dimension of sustainable development and a goal in itself, as made clear by global campaigns such as #Culture2030Goal;

Amendment 150 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups in cultural activities and initiatives leaving no one behind;

Amendment 151 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most ~~disadvantag~~marginalised and underrepresented groups in cultural activities and initiatives;

Amendment 152 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the ~~Commission and the Member States to ensure the inclusion of the most disadvantaged groups~~Member States and competent bodies to encourage participation in cultural activities and initiatives;

Amendment 153 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Calls on the ~~Commission and the~~ Member States to ensure the ~~inclus~~assimilation of the most disadvantaged groups in cultural activities and initiatives;

Amendment 154 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the establishment of safeguarding systems across the Union to fully take into account the specificities of working features in the CCS such as seasonality or non-standard forms of employment; urges in this respect the Commission and Member States to establish a common European Framework protecting labour rights of all workers in the CCS, including social insurance and pension rights, as well as safeguarding a common minimum standard income;

Amendment 155 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to eliminate administrative, financial and linguistic obstacles that hinder physical and mental participation in cultural activities and initiatives, particularly, but not exclusively, for persons with disabilities;

Amendment 156 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Encourages the Member States to recognise the role of the arts and culture in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and mental well-being; encourages the cultural capacity of all Europeans by providing a wide range of cultural activities and opportunities for active participation;

Amendment 157 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Encourages the Member States to recognise the role of the arts and culture in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and mental well-being; emphasizes that in this context freedom of expression in culture and media is crucial to democracy and the society's well-being;

Amendment 158 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Encourages the Member States to recognise the role of the arts and culture in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle and mental well-being, as well as in forming part of a complete psychosocial support for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and communities;

Amendment 159 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Encourages the Member States to recognise the role of ~~the arts and~~ culture in the promotion of a healthy lifestyle ~~and mental well-being~~, of mental health, and of individual and societal well-being and calls for adequate relevant public funding to culture;

Amendment 16 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) fall short in explicitly addressing culture as a global public good and both a cross- cutting dimension of sustainable development and a goal itself, as made clear by global campaign such as the #Culture2030Goal;

Amendment 160 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Peter POLLÁK, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to work more on collecting updated and comparable data on culture, including by mapping and benchmarking good practices and structurally engaging experts, stakeholders and public authorities and the audience, not only from the cultural sector, but also from all sectors of the economy, with a special focus on the health sector; calls on the Commission to provide more indicators for culture, including qualitative indicators and possibly inspired or similar to other policy areas such as youth indicators;

Amendment 161 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Encourages the Member States to recognise the importance of cultural and artistic activities for the mental health and well-being of young people, at both national and international levels, particularly for disadvantaged young people;

Amendment 162 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. evokes the value of protecting and promoting the European cultural heritage as a common resource, as a tool for consolidating a common European identity;

Amendment 163 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Stresses the importance of cultural initiatives focused on entertainment and care for persons with disabilities; deplores the fact that the suspension of such activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant adverse impact on the individuals who had been benefiting from them; asks the Commission to pay more attention to this issue in the coming years;

Amendment 164 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines the fundamental importance of culture for the development of the individual’s identity and overall individual and societal well-being as well as in the education of children and young people; calls therefore for the inclusion of culture and sports as well in school curriculums of all educational stages, also supported by educating educators on the importance and power of culture on society's individuals' identity and overall well-being;

Amendment 165 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines the fundamental importance of culture for the development of the individual’s identityies and overall well-being as well as in the education of children and young people; and develops their intercultural competences that contribute to combatting hate and racism and building peaceful societies;

Amendment 166 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines the fundamental importance of culture for the development of the individual’s identity and overall well-being as well as in the education of children and young people, as well as for elderly people in finding a new passion or vocation;

Amendment 167 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 168 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines the fundamental importance of culture for the development of ~~the individual’s identity and~~identity, the assimilation by minorities of European identities and values and an individual’s overall well-being as well as in the education of children and young people;

Amendment 169 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines the fundamental importance of culture for the development of the individual’s identity and overall well-being as well as in the ~~education of~~lifelong learning education of all people, especially children and young people;

Amendment 17 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas Europe is a cultural community, based on shared values and history and on the success of economic integration; whereas, without prejudice to the cultural diversity of its peoples, there is in Europe a basic body of many artistic and cultural manifestations;

Amendment 170 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

Amendment 171 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Expresses concern about the common narrowing of school curricula, which tend to relegate arts and artistic disciplines in a more marginal position compared to other subjects; urges Member States to allocate the appropriate financial and human resources and incentives to arts and artistic disciplines as curricular as well as extra-curricular activities; urges the Commission to move beyond a “STEM approach” and fully adopt a “STEAM approach” (Sciences, Technologies, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) instead;

Amendment 172 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Recalls the importance of a full and well-structured school curriculum, which includes the arts and artistic disciplines, with a view to an appropriate and rounded education and the formation of individuals who are more thoughtful, and are more responsible citizens; stresses that the habit of accessing and enjoying culture and artistic and cultural initiatives developed during a person’s formative years results in the development of a cultural attitude and a habit of partaking in culture;

Amendment 173 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. Calls for dedicated strategies to be developed in order to support professional working and labour conditions, including minimum standard income and social security and pension rights, for all workers in the CCS, by openly acknowledging that a CCS occupation is - and therefore, should be considered and payed as - a professional occupation;

Amendment 174 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. underlines the importance of promoting the strengthening of the international capacity of the European cultural and creative sectors, including local organizations and micro- organizations, of small artists, so that they are active internationally;

Amendment 175 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9a. In parallel with the work on the professionalisation of the CCSI, calls for strategies to be developed for the many amateur artists in Europe;

Amendment 176 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Re~~call~~minds that cross-border mobility remains an essential component of artists’ and cultural workers’ careers; therefore, stresses the importance of mutual recognition of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate ~~cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI~~it; recalls that funding instruments supporting mobility should foster the work-life balance of artists and cultural professionals and stimulate as much as possible environmentally and socially sustainable mobility;

Amendment 177 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the importance of mutual recognition of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI; suggests in this respect the creation of a European Culture Area, with relevant registration and other procedures similar to the European Education Area;

Amendment 178 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the importance of mutual recognition of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI; proposes in this respect the establishment of an EU register for artists and workers in the CCS;

Amendment 179 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the importance of mutual recognition of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI and the role this recognition plays for de-facto achieving or restricting freedom of expression;

Amendment 18 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the EU's cultural policies are still underdeveloped and have a great potential to play a more powerful role particularly in international diplomacy;

Amendment 180 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the importance of mutual recognition of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI, including artists and cultural workers who are third country nationals;

Amendment 181 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the importance of mutual recognition and cross-border portability of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility of workers in the CCSI;

Amendment 182 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls the importance of mutual recognition of artistic competences and creative skills and qualifications to facilitate cross-border mobility ~~of workers~~ in the CCSI;

Amendment 183 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Since the mobility of artists and professionals in the cultural sectors, removing existing barriers, developing skills, learning, intercultural awareness, co-production, circulation and dissemination of works of art, co-creation, participation in international events such as fairs and festivals is an essential prerequisite for a better connected, stronger and more sustainable cultural and creative sector in the Union; recalls the importance of a legal status, of simplifying the process of obtaining visas and the period of validity of permits, of eliminating the risk of double taxation and of improving the precarious and unstable conditions of social security;

Amendment 184 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Stresses the fundamental importance for the Member States of mobility for students in the cultural and artistic sector in allowing a broader and more eclectic training and providing more specific and attractive professional prospects and presenting a broad and diverse cultural front;

Amendment 185 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)

10b. Emphasizes the importance of gaining a much clearer perspective on existing or potential cultural strategies and policies that prove to be effective in times of crisis;

Amendment 186 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the establishment of the Culture Moves Europe mobility scheme for professionals in the CCSI under Creative Europe; regrets, however, that administrative and financial obstacles to mobility still remain; calls for the promotion of cross-border approaches to culture and the search for European partners for the creation of major European cultural co-productions and residencies programmes, with the objective of fostering the mobility of artists and creators by reinforcing cooperation of all involved actors and exchanges of best practices, including with non-EU countries;

Amendment 187 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the establishment of the Culture Moves Europe mobility scheme for professionals in the CCSI; ~~regrets, however, that administrative and financial obstacles to mobility still remain;~~ underlines that this scheme will be able to deploy its full potential if supported by an adequate budget in the future and if able to reach a wider audience; regrets, however, that administrative and financial obstacles to mobility still exist and calls for this scheme to dismantle persisting structural barriers to artistic and cultural mobility;

Amendment 188 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the establishment of the Culture Moves Europe mobility scheme for professionals in the CCSI; regrets, however, that administrative ~~and~~, financial and linguistic obstacles to mobility still remain; calls on the Commission and the Member States to eliminate these obstacles;

Amendment 189 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Welcomes the establishment of the Culture Moves Europe mobility scheme for professionals in the CCSI; regrets, however, that enormous administrative and financial obstacles to mobility still remain;

Amendment 19 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the Council Work Plan for Culture 2023-2026 will serve as the main roadmap for the coordination of EU cultural policies in the years to come and will represent an opportunity to trigger a paradigm shift enabling the CCS to adapt to a new normality after the pandemic and develop resilience in the face of possible challenges ahead;

Amendment 190 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to strengthen their efforts to provide quality information on mobility and exchange programmes for artists and other cultural professionals and practitioners, as well as material support to tackle all kinds of obstacles to mobility in the CCSI, including administrative, financial and linguistic obstacles, as well as obstacles linked to disability;

Amendment 191 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls for easier procedures to be applied for all partners, especially SMEs, or partners from third countries in order to overcome the cumbersome procedures of funding applications; calls in this respect for more small scale projects where consortiums do not need a large- scale company as a leading partner;

Amendment 192 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the ~~professional~~workers in the CCSI, having been seriously hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, must benefit from a genuine European recovery, particularly given the fact that this atypical sector is composed mostly of individuals as well as micro and small sized organisations and companies, often depending on irregular income and lacking long-term financial predictability;

Amendment 193 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that ~~the~~ professionals in the CCSI, having been seriously hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, must benefit from a genuine European recovery, also by reviewing overall working procedures, including by providing safety rules against harassment and any kind of abuse in the cultural workplace;

Amendment 194 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the professionals in the CCSI, having been seriously hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, must benefit from a genuine and targeted European recovery that takes into account the atypical nature of the CCSI and of workers in the CCSI , who are mainly employed on a project basis or on atypical or part-time contracts;

Amendment 195 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the professionals in the CCSI, having been seriously hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, must benefit from a genuine European recovery; calls for further support to initiatives aiming at stimulating creativity, diversity and innovation in Europe’s artistic sectors;

Amendment 196 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the professionals in the CCSI, having been seriously hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, must benefit from a genuine European recovery, which would go further than getting back to normal, since normal was already problematic in terms of labour and pay conditions in CCS;

Amendment 197 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Considers that the professionals in the CCSI, hav~~ing~~e been seriously hit by the ~~COVID-19 pandemic, must benefit from a g~~consequences of the measures takenu in~~e European recovery~~ response to the COVID-19 outbreak;

Amendment 198 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Notes that the recovery efforts should set out to create a more stable and reliable structure for the CCSI, tackling the problems deriving from the sector’s make-up, composed mainly of individuals and of micro and small organisations and companies, often depending on irregular income and lacking long-term financial predictability;

Amendment 199 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the Commission to consider creating a special European fund to contribute to the recovery, protection, restoration and promotion of our cultural heritage;

Amendment 2 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

— having regard to the Declaration adopted during the informal meeting of European Union Member State ministers responsible for Cultural and European Affairs, held in Paris on 3 May 2019,

Amendment 20 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) fall short in explicitly addressing culture, despite culture being a global public good and both a cross-cutting dimension of sustainable development and a goal in itself, as made clear by global campaigns such as #Culture2030Goal;

Amendment 200 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

~~13. Underlines that the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility should be used in particular to improve the working conditions of professionals in the CCSI;~~deleted

Amendment 201 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. ~~Underlines that the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility should be used in particular to improve the working conditions of professionals in the CCSI;~~ Welcomes the Commission’s support to Member States in ensuring fair remuneration and improving socio- economic conditions for artists and creators through general and sector- specific dialogues; underlines that, besides measures supporting the economic recovery of the CCSI, the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility should be used in particular to improve the working conditions, training, up- and reskilling of professionals in the CCSI in order to keep up with the ongoing structural changes in these sectors;

Amendment 202 #

Gianantonio DA RE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines that the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility should be used in particular to improve the working conditions of professionals in the CCSI to support small and medium-sized enterprises in particular;

Amendment 203 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Underlines that the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility should be used in particular to improve the working conditions of professionals in the CCSI;

Amendment 204 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Recalls, however, that the heterogeneity of public investments leads to the CCSI recovering at different speeds, causing increased disparities within the EU’s cultural ecosystem and threatening Europe’s cultural diversity; underlines that the recovery of the CCSI must go hand-in-hand with the ongoing efforts towards increased sustainability and digitalisation;

Amendment 205 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Peter POLLÁK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Invites the Commission to incorporate cultural heritage as a strategic and crosscutting priority in the Work Plan for Culture 2023-2026;

Amendment 206 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

~~14. Reminds the Commission of Parliament’s repeated calls for a European Status of the Artist to be proposed;~~deleted

Amendment 207 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reminds the Commission of Parliament’s repeated calls for a European Status of the Artist to be proposed and set out a common framework for working conditions and minimum standards common to all EU countries, in full respect of the responsibilities of the Member States and the EU with regards to labour market and cultural policy, in order to improve the socio-economic conditions of culture professionals in all Member States; looks forward to the publication of the OMC report, expected by mid-2023; calls for input from relevant CSOs, including social partners on matters related to social protection, to be taken in due account with a view to ensure appropriate follow-up on this matter;

Amendment 208 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reminds the Commission of Parliament’s repeated calls for a European Status of the Artist to be proposed; highlights that adequate working conditions, social security and fair remuneration are crucial elements of guaranteeing de-facto genuine creativity and freedom of expression;

Amendment 209 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reminds the Commission of Parliament’s repeated calls for a European Status of the Artist to be proposed in order to strengthen minimum standards in the working and income conditions of the EU’s Cultural and Creative Sectors;

Amendment 21 #

Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the exceptional historical and cultural heritage of Europe – to which the European Cultural Routes bear witness – is the main visible symbol of the permanent ties and exchanges between our citizens and our nations and is key in the formation of a European spirit;

Amendment 210 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Considers that, at a minimum, the Statute of the Artists should include firstly, a set of principles, such as the right to fair remuneration, the right to transparency of the contracts and on the remuneration, the right of collective bargaining, the right for the revocation of rights that authors and performers have transferred on an exclusive basis, as well as the right to social security, among others; secondly, a translation of those principles in the necessary measures and initiatives to ensure that transnational creative work abide by them at EU level, in particular regarding social security; and thirdly the transposition of such principles into EU programmes, for example, by making the remuneration of artists compulsory in EU funded projects;

Amendment 211 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Encourages all Member States to implement Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market; calls on those Member States who have not yet done so, to transpose the Directive into their national laws, and to guarantee fair, appropriate and proportional remuneration of authors and performers; calls on the Commission to support the transposition and implementation efforts;

Amendment 212 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Calls on the Member States to ensure fair remuneration and fair working conditions for workers in the CCSI , particularly, but not exclusively, for workers operating in the single digital market;

Amendment 213 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Notes with regret that it is often impossible, in reality, for women to have access to culture because of institutional and structural constraints, harmful narratives and poor socio-economic conditions;

Amendment 214 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes with regret that the procedures to apply for EU funding are often burdensome; calls on the Commission to further simplify these procedures; and to guarantee reasonably easy access to EU funds for all organisations and individuals in the CCSI, including small and medium-sized organisations and those that are family- run; encourages the Commission to carry out a study on the use of finance by SMEs, particularly in the most disadvantaged areas;

Amendment 215 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes with regret that the procedures to apply for EU funding ~~are often burdensome; calls on the Commission to further simplify these procedures~~, including those for the Creative Europe programme, are often still too burdensome and create unnecessarily obstacles for all potential beneficiaries, especially micro and small sized organisations in the CCSI, whose administrative capacities are limited, with regards to organisations both in Europe and in third countries; therefore calls on the Commission to further simplify these procedures to allow a wider pool and variety of organisations to have access to EU funding;

Amendment 216 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes with regret that the procedures to apply for EU funding are often burdensome; calls on the Commission to further simplify these procedures; believes that the Commission should work towards an increased awareness of the diverse funding possibilities;

Amendment 217 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Notes with regret that the procedures to apply for EU funding still are often burdensome especially for smaller projects; calls on the Commission to further simplify these procedures;

Amendment 218 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to incentivise the use of finance by internal areas at risk of depopulation through a targeted and inclusive cultural policy; underlines that the support from the Recovery and Resilience Facility should in addition be used to facilitate access to credit by SMEs;

Amendment 219 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Asks the Commission to respect the principle of multilingualism when adapting these procedures and to allow the submission of applications in all 24 official EU languages to guarantee an equal opportunity to participate for all the organisations and individuals in the CCSI, including those who do not have the capacity or the means to provide a suitable translation in English;

Amendment 22 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas Article 167(3) of the TFEU states that ‘the Union and the Member States shall foster cooperation with third countries and the competent international organisations in the sphere of culture, in particular the Council of Europe’;

Amendment 220 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Ask~~Urges the Commission to respect the principle of multilingualism when adapting these procedures; regrets that the relevant detailed information and the application forms still have to be submitted only in certain languages, thus having no respect for multilingualism, while making it more difficult or impossible for non-native speakers to receive funding or even to apply;

Amendment 221 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Asks the Commission to respect the principle of multilingualism when adapting these procedures, permitting applications in all 24 official languages of the EU in order to allow a fair chance to organisations and individuals who do not have the capacity or means to ensure translation into English;

Amendment 222 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Asks the Commission to respect the principle of multilingualism when adapting these procedures in order to allow a fair chance to organisations and individuals who do not have the capacity or means to ensure translation into English;

Amendment 223 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. ~~Asks~~Demands that the Commission to respect the principles of multilingualism and diversity when adapting these procedures;

Amendment 224 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Welcomes the recent setting-up of ‘cascade funding’; ~~invites the Commission to further develop such schem~~however, urges the Commission to consider, when setting up such schemes involving intermediary organisations, the issues of potential conflicts of interest between the intermediary and the final recipients, the overhead costs for intermediaries in the logistics and administration of the grants, the criteria for selection and final evaluations of the grants; reiterates that political economic choices and austerity measures had severe consequences on major cuts in budget for culture; whereas on the contrary culture is underfunded in many Member States;

Amendment 225 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Welcomes the recent setting-up of ‘cascade funding’~~; invites the Commission to further develop such schemes;~~ as a means to better reach all beneficiaries, especially individuals and small- and medium-sized organisations; invites the Commission to further develop such schemes in all programmes of relevance to the CCSI; advises the Commission to consider, when setting up such schemes involving intermediary organisations, the issues of potential conflict of interest between the intermediary and the final recipients, the overhead costs for intermediaries in the logistics and administration of the grants, the criteria for selection and final evaluations of the grants;

Amendment 226 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that EU and national cultural policies and initiatives are backed by sufficient funding and capacities, in order to move beyond a crisis-management approach and adopt instead a long-term strategy for cultural policies;

Amendment 227 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Regrets the difficulty generally encountered by individuals and SMEs in the CCSI in obtaining access to banking credit;

Amendment 228 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Isabella ADINOLFI, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recalls the Commission’s key objective of accompanying the development of creative partnerships between the cultural and other sectors such as ICT, research and development, urban planning and sustainable tourism, to reinforce the social and economic impact of investments in culture and creativity, in particular towards the promotion of growth and jobs and the development and attractiveness of regions and cities; notes in particular the positive contribution of the EU Digital Innovation Hubs and the Creative Innovation Labs, which support European industries in their innovation capacity respectively in the digital and audiovisual areas;

Amendment 229 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Highlights the success of the European Capitals of Culture initiative with respect to the development of cities and regions across the EU and associated countries; welcomes the Commission’s Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor, developed by the Joint Research Centre, which contributes to objectively assessing the cultural and natural assets of regions and cities, based on the link between culture and tourism; encourages the Commission to follow up on the Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities policy project, to promote cultural participation and social and urban regeneration;

Amendment 23 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas culture is a value in itself and shall be regarded as a practice and only as a resource;

Amendment 230 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Highlights the success of the European Capitals of Culture initiative with respect to the development of cities and regions across the EU and associated countries; stresses the need for increased and additional funding for the European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) as the COVID-19 pandemic followed by rising inflation have significantly worsened the framework conditions for the implementation of the ECOC;

Amendment 231 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Peter POLLÁK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Highlights the success of the European Capitals of Culture initiative with respect to the development of cities and regions across the EU and associated countries; reiterates the importance of the European Heritage Label as a project enhancing awareness of the cultural and historical roots of the EU in an innovative way;

Amendment 232 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Advises the Commission and the Member States to build on the recommendations of the OMC report on Sustainable Cultural Tourism to ensure the correct balance is achieved between safeguarding and conserving cultural heritage on the one hand and enhancing visitor access and facilities on the other; at the same time, urges the Member States to remain vigilant on the risks of mass tourism for cultural heritage as well as natural ecosystems;

Amendment 233 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Recalls the native and universal cultural and artistic values, on a national and international level, and the importance of access to financing, the capacity to innovate, the fair remuneration of authors and creators, as well as cross-sectoral cooperation;

Amendment 234 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Stresses the need to find a balance between the growth and development of the tourism sector in cities known for their art and in tourist destinations and their permanent residents’ quality of life;

Amendment 235 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the important contribution of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative; acknowledges the important contribution of the NEB initiative as a creative and inter and transdisciplinary initiative which brings together arts, design and architecture with a view to contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive living environment for all; recalls that this initiative should be based on innovation at all levels and the active participation and involvement of people and local communities; stresses that the new Council Work Plan for Culture should mirror the relevance of the NEB initiative, including its external dimension, with clear target outputs; calls again on the Commission to present a proposal as soon as possible to make the NEB a new stand- alone EU programme by the next MFF;

Amendment 236 #

Željana ZOVKO, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the important contribution of the New European Bauhaus initiative for cultural heritage; underlines the significant role it can play in preserving cultural heritage across and beyond the EU, notably by combining sustainable and energy efficient building practices and ensuring the protection of cultural heritage in case of natural and man-made disasters by adding a safety element;

Amendment 237 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the important contribution of the New European Bauhaus initiative, which aims to deliver the EU’s Green New Deal targets by bridging the worlds of science, technology, art and culture, mainstreaming environmental sustainability throughout all EU policies;

Amendment 238 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the important contribution of the New European Bauhaus initiative; believes that clear funding and selection criteria are of the utmost importance to stipulate the best possible outcome of the initiative;

Amendment 239 #

Peter POLLÁK

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the important contribution of the New European Bauhaus initiative and calls for the inclusion of citizens from socially weaker strata;

Amendment 24 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas the Camino de Santiago Routes and the other European Cultural Routes, which occupy a prominent position in the geography of the European continent, have played and continue to play an important role in the feeling of belonging to a shared European culture;

Amendment 240 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the important contribution of the New European Bauhaus initiative; reiterates its call to fund the initiative with its own budget;

Amendment 241 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Acknowledges the ~~important~~ contribution of the New European Bauhaus initiative;

Amendment 242 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Recognises the potential of the New European Bauhaus initiative in contributing to the restoration of cities and their cultural heritage, in particular in the context of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the loss of heritage that has occurred;

Amendment 243 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

~~22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and inspiring positive behavioural change;~~deleted

Amendment 244 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and inspiring positive behavioural change; encourages the Commission to work more closely with Member States and civil society and national and local organisations to raise awareness about this topic among citizens;

Amendment 245 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and inspiring positive behavioural change; particularly, recalls that traditional knowledge, which constitutes part of cultural heritage, is key to enhancing climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts;

Amendment 246 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and inspiring positive behavioural change; calls for the guaranteeing the right of creative and artistic workers to fair remuneration, contractual agreements and working conditions;

Amendment 247 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution ~~that the arts and~~of culture ~~make~~ to raising awareness of environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and to inspiring positive behavioural change, since culture is the most efficient vehicle towards any social change;

Amendment 248 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of ~~environmental, climate and sustainability issues~~nature, and inspiring positive behavioural change;

Amendment 249 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of ~~environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and~~sustainability issues, as well as the climate emergency and to inspiring positive behavioural change;

Amendment 25 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)

Ad. whereas cultural creation is an essential way to communicate opinions, including critical opinions towards those in power, and therefore it is crucial to guarantee freedom of expression in culture, including media freedom of expression;

Amendment 250 #

François-Xavier BELLAMY, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Željana ZOVKO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Isabella ADINOLFI, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of social, environmental, climate and sustainability issues, and inspiring positive behavioural change;

Amendment 251 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Believes that cultural heritage can help the EU to attain its ambitious objectives of becoming climate-neutral by 2050; recalls that the renovation of heritage and other ancient buildings should always be carried out in compliance with the national rules on conservation, the 1964 Venice Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites, and the original architecture; stresses that preserving the environment implies, more broadly, to respect the built heritage, be it or not strictly protected according to the national legislations;

Amendment 252 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Emphasises that the economic dimension of activities should always put the local communities’ benefits and interests at the centre, especially those of local artists and cultural workers, and uphold respect for nature and the environment;

Amendment 253 #

François-Xavier BELLAMY, Sabine VERHEYEN, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Željana ZOVKO, Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA, Isabella ADINOLFI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Insists on promoting the skills needed in the cultural and creative sectors, including digital, entrepreneurial, traditional and specialized skills;

Amendment 254 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Recalls the article 3 of the Treaty on European Union which stipulates that the EU must ensure that Europe’s cultural heritage is safeguarded and enhanced; calls therefore on the European Commission to take into account this paramount consideration in its decision as regards the inclusion of lead metal to the list of substances subject to authorisation in Annex XIV to the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation; reiterates that such a measure could result in the closure or delocalisation of many craft enterprises in such areas as the stained glass industry and ultimately impact the restoration of the vast heritage of the Union, as well as the disappearance of many traditional agricultural productions; insists on the need to reconcile the required level of protection for human health and the environment with the preservation of European heritage and asks for a permanent exemption of the cultural sector from the above-mentioned regulation;

Amendment 255 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Encourages the Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Member States to design their cultural programmes in line with the principles of environmental sustainability and the fight against the climate crisis; , and assess the environmental impact of all EU-funded projects throughout their life cycle; recommends stakeholders and beneficiaries of EU funding to seek the most environmentally-friendly methods and approaches in the design, planning and implementation of their projects;

Amendment 256 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Encourages the Commission, the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the Member States to design their cultural programmes in line with the principles of environmental sustainability and the fight against the climate crisis; highlights the vast contribution that the arts and culture make to raising awareness of these issues, and inspiring positive behavioural change; asks the Commission to set up a special fund for such cultural initiatives through synergies with other dedicated EU programmes, funds and policies;

Amendment 257 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

Amendment 258 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Asks the Commission to make sure that the principles of environmental sustainability and policies to combat the climate crisis do not in any way affect the physical integrity, architectural coherence, historical character or the value of historic or artistic buildings or of historic centres, even where they are not specifically protected as such;

Amendment 259 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Welcomes the OMC report on “Strengthening Cultural Heritage Resilience for Climate Change – Where the European Green Deal meets Cultural Heritage” and encourages the Commission and Member States to actively follow up on the recommendations and avail of the good practice examples;

Amendment 26 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage promoted culture and cultural heritage; as "a shared source of remembrance, understanding, identity, dialogue, cohesion and creativity for Europe"; whereas the general objectives of the Year were to “encourage and support the efforts of the Union, the Member States and regional and local authorities, in cooperation with the cultural heritage sector and broader civil society, to protect, safeguard, reuse, enhance, valorise and promote Europe's cultural heritage" 1a; _________________ 1a OJ L 131, 20.5.2017, p. 1

Amendment 260 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to ensure better mobility of cultural and creative students and young professionals, especially through the Erasmus+ programme and other European and national initiatives;

Amendment 261 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23b. Asks the Commission to make sure that activities to make historic or artistic buildings and culturally or artistically important assets safe and to restore them are conducted in a sensitive manner, using materials that are appropriate for the nature of the asset to be restored and taking the greatest account of the authenticity and quality of the final result of the activity although this may undermine, where necessary, any principles of environmental sustainability and climate crisis combating efforts that may be involved;

Amendment 262 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

23b. Points out that special attention should be given to sustainability issues during the restoration of cultural heritage and traditional buildings; emphasises the need for further exchanges of best practices between Member States as well as with third countries on innovative measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, while preserving their architectural interest or historic character;

Amendment 263 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)

23c. Welcomes the inclusion of the “Culture, Creative & Inclusive Society” cluster within Horizon Europe and the increase of calls on research and innovation in the field of cultural heritage and the CCSI, and welcomes the recent launch of the new European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)’s Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) on Culture and Creativity; looks forward to the results of these calls for proposals, particularly the contribution that research and innovation can make to developing European ICR;

Amendment 264 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Acknowledges digitalisation as a means of maximising the benefits of cultural heritage; stresses the challenges imposed by digitalisation on the CCSI and their need for constant rethinking and reshaping business models; emphasises the importance of guaranteed funding for digitalisation, preservation and online availability of cultural and creative content and our European cultural heritage; Recalls the importance of investing in digital literacy for all, including as a means to enjoy culture;

Amendment 265 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Peter POLLÁK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Acknowledges digitalisation as a means of maximising the benefits of cultural heritage, as beneficial to the preservation of the European identity;

Amendment 266 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Acknowledges digitalisation as a means of maximising the benefits of cultural heritage, noting the need for reskilling of CCSI employees;

Amendment 267 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24a. Asks the Commission to identify a single European standard for digitalisation;

Amendment 268 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24b. Insists that copyright in works of art and material in the CCSI must remain European, including in relation to the digitalisation of works of art and material in the CCSI, including, but not restricted to, digitalisation carried out by industries outside the EU; discourages economic speculation in this field;

Amendment 269 #

Željana ZOVKO, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

24c. Asks the Commission to fully and comprehensively regulate the metaverse, with particular reference to virtual artistic heritage; asks the Commission to preserve European artistic heritage even if it is replicated or, in any event, transposed to the metaverse;

Amendment 27 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage promoted culture and cultural heritage; whereas the preservation, protection and promotion of cultural heritage in all forms is an important driver for strengthening intercultural relations, peace, democracy, sustainable development, reconciliation and cultural coexistence;

Amendment 270 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Asim ADEMOV, Theodoros ZAGORAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)

24d. Asks the Commission to protect the intellectual property of the digitised European landscape, which must remain European;

Amendment 271 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

~~25. Insists that freedom of artistic expression must remain guaranteed for all creators;~~deleted

Amendment 272 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Insists that freedom of artistic expression must remain guaranteed for all creators; calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider the importance of freedom of artistic expression in all their activities across all policy areas; notes that violation of artistic freedom by silencing or intimidating artists is on the rise in Europe; recalls in this respect that freedom of expression is a key component of creativity and cultural production as it ensures that artistic works reflect diversity and richness of society;

Amendment 273 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)

25a. Regrets the gradual disappearance of cultural material in paper form and the repercussions of this trend on the publishing sector, particularly on small and medium-sized publishing houses and bookshops;

Amendment 274 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Considers that culture makes a key contribution to fostering mutual understanding and restoring communication on the international stage in challenging global contexts; highlights the role of culture in crisis response, also in light of its impact on economic development and employment and in promoting social inclusion, especially of marginalised and underrepresented groups;

Amendment 275 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Considers that culture makes a key contribution to fostering mutual understanding and restoring communication on the international stage in challenging global contexts; highlights the role of the EU in promoting a continuous dialogue on cultural policies between its Member States and third countries;

Amendment 276 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Considers that culture makes a key contribution to fostering mutual understanding and restoring communication on the international stage in challenging global contexts, which can go beyond linguistic boundaries;

Amendment 277 #

Sabine VERHEYEN, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

Amendment 278 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. emphasises the role of cultural works for cross-linguistic and cross- border understanding; stresses that cultural works such as films or literature create links between different cultures; considers therefore, that international co- productions should be promoted;

Amendment 279 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Considers that intercultural dialogue can build and promote understanding within a society and between different societies and that it contributes to demonstrating the value of cultural diversity and human rights;

Amendment 28 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage promoted culture and cultural heritage; whereas cultural heritage can act as a catalyst for a long- term sustainable economic recovery, sustainable tourism and regional development, enhancing the involvement of local communities;

Amendment 280 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that equality, transparency and diversification criteria drive the allocation of financial and non- financial resources to the cultural sector;

Amendment 281 #

Isabella ADINOLFI, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Asim ADEMOV

26a. Notes that archaeological/cultural items stolen from a people represent the identity of the people from whom they have been stolen;

Amendment 282 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)

26b. Asks the Commission to strongly condemn the destruction of historical, artistic and cultural heritage in recent conflicts that may in some cases constitute violations of human rights and the systematic destruction of the historical, artistic and cultural heritage by totalitarian regimes and terrorist groups as a tool for affirming their supremacy over peoples or minorities;

Amendment 283 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Points out the difference in terms of decision-making processes, programme design and implementation, and overall philosophy between ‘cultural relations’ and ‘cultural diplomacy’; underlines that both approaches can coexist and complement each other but that each ultimately serves a different purpose;

Amendment 284 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Points out the difference in terms of decision-making processes, programme design and implementation, and overall philosophy between ‘“cultural relations’” and ‘“cultural diplomacy’”; underlines that ~~bot~~each approach~~es can coexist and complement each other~~ serves a different purpose;

Amendment 285 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Points out the difference between ‘cultural relations’ and ‘cultural diplomacy’; underlines that both approaches ~~can~~must coexist and complement each other;

Amendment 286 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote fair remuneration, labour conditions and the modernisation of and welfare systems for the CCS, including in the digital environment, while regretting that the Copyright Directive is still not transposed into national law in many member states, more than a year after the deadline;

Amendment 287 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

~~28. Regrets the lack of a clear and coherent strategy for international cultural relations (ICR); strongly encourages the Commission and the EEAS to develop coherent strategies;~~deleted

Amendment 288 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Regrets the lack of a clear and coherent strategy for iInternational cCultural rRelations (ICR); strongly encourages the Commission and the EEAS to develop ~~coherent strateg~~, in collaboration with the EUNIC Clusters and CSOs in third countries, coherent strategies, including defining a common shared understanding of what constitutes ICR and steps towards their implementation, to be endorsed by the Member States and to be implemented by the EU Delegations in third countries;

Amendment 289 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Regrets the lack of a clear and coherent strategy for international cultural relations (ICR); strongly encourages the Commission and the EEAS to develop coherent strategies and regularly exchange practices and lessons learned; recommends that these strategies invest in the visibility and strategic communication about the EU's shared cultural heritage and its contribution to the promotion of democracy and our shared values;

Amendment 29 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the legacy of the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage that promoted culture and cultural heritage could have been further supported;

Amendment 290 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Regrets the lack of a clear and coherent EU strategy for international cultural relations (ICR); strongly encourages the Commission and the EEAS to develop such a coherent strateg~~ies~~y;

Amendment 291 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

~~29. Urges the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to apply a bottom- up and a people-to-people approach when building their cultural relations with countries outside the EU;~~deleted

Amendment 292 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. UWelcomes the recommendations published by the Voices for Culture SD on ICR and invites the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to take these into due account when developing their ICR strategies; particularly, urges the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to apply a bottom- up, human rights, and a people-to-people approach when building their cultural relations with third countries ~~outside the EU;~~ , and to design and implement their ICR strategy and project programming taking into account the needs and demands of their partner countries and local communities, while treating them as equal partners; stresses that such strategies should answer to the needs and specific political and socio-economic situation of each partner country or region, rather than being the product of a ‘one size fits all’ approach;

Amendment 293 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Urges the Commission, the EEAS and the Member States to apply a bottom- up and a people-to-people approach when building their cultural relations with countries outside the EU; notes that cooperation with local intercultural and interreligious actors and organisations is vital in strengthening relations based on shared values, peace, tolerance and mutual understanding;

Amendment 294 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

Amendment 295 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)

29a. Warns the Commission, the EEAS, the EU Delegations in third countries, the Member States and all the actors in the CCSI of the risk of EU cultural activities, particularly in the field of ICR, of being perceived as too Eurocentric;

Amendment 296 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)

29b. Praises the work done by the Member States’ cultural institutes and organisations and by the EUNIC Clusters in third countries; encourages further cooperation between them and the development of their network with local CSOs, with a particular attention to be given to smaller Member States and Member States with limited or no cultural visibility abroad, and to their cultural representation needs;

Amendment 297 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Welcomes the fact that several Commission and EEAS units are engaging in cross-cutting work on ICR; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to improve the coordination mechanisms between the entities concerned, including through the creation of more coherent and streamlined working methods, in order to maximise efficiency, avoid overlapping actions and ensure institutional memory;

Amendment 298 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Welcomes the creation of cultural focal points in EU delegations; encourages the EU delegations to strengthen their role; calls for the allocation of the necessary resources to the EU’s ICR and cultural diplomacy teams in the Commission and EEAS headquarters, as well as in the EU delegations;deleted

Amendment 299 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Welcomes the creation of cultural focal points in EU dDelegations; encourages the EU dDelegations to strengthen their role and integrate them under their political teams, rather than their communications and events teams; calls for the allocation of the necessary budgetary and personnel resources to the EU’s ICR and cultural diplomacy teams in the Commission and EEAS headquarters, as well as in the EU ~~delegation~~Delegations, in order to facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academia in third countries;

Amendment 3 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 b (new)

— having regard to the Resolution adopted by the Council of Europe establishing an Enlarged Partial Agreement (EPA) on Cultural Routes (CM/Res(2010)53),

Amendment 30 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage supported and promoted culture and cultural heritage;

Amendment 300 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. ~~Welcom~~Notes the creation of cultural focal points in EU delegations; ~~encourages the EU delegations to strengthen their role;~~ calls for the allocation of the ~~necessary~~available resources to the EU’s ICR and cultural diplomacy teams in the Commission and EEAS headquarters, as well as in the EU delegations;

Amendment 301 #

31a. Reiterates the importance of inter- cultural exchanges of students, researchers and CCSI actors for establishing lasting academic and cultural ties, which simultaneously promote the EU in partner countries, and calls on the Commission and the Member States to ease the Schengen visa processes for those groups;

Amendment 302 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Calls for the allocation of the necessary budgetary and human resources for the EU's international cultural relations and cultural diplomacy to facilitate cultural cooperation with local actors and academic environment from third countries;

Amendment 303 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

~~32. Encourages the Member States and the EEAS to integrate coaching on cultural policies, ICR and cultural diplomacy in the training of all their diplomatic staff;~~deleted

Amendment 304 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Encourages the Member States and the EEAS to integrate coaching on cultural policies, ICR and cultural diplomacy in the training of all their diplomatic staff, in order to raise awareness amongst diplomats of ICR as a key, independent field within public diplomacy, and build the appropriate political and policy competences in the field of ICR and cultural diplomacy; looks forward to the results of the newly launched European Diplomatic Academy based on a European Parliament pilot project and to the publication in November of the feasibility study commissioned by the EEAS;

Amendment 305 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Encourages the Member States and the EEAS to integrate ~~coaching on~~ cultural policies, ICR and cultural diplomacy in the selection processes and training of all their diplomatic staff;

Amendment 306 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to strengthen cooperation with the Council of Europe, particularly with the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, with a view to promoting the fundamental values of cultural diversity, intercultural dialogue and the sustainable regional development of lesser-known destinations, at the same time as preserving their shared cultural heritage;

Amendment 307 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 b (new)

32b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, and on citizens’ associations, to: (a) continue the work of identifying and mapping the Camino de Santiago Routes and the other European Cultural Routes, including in digital format; (b) signpost the routes to Santiago de Compostela that cross the European continent, using the symbols suggested by the Council of Europe; (c) develop a coordinated plan to protect and rehabilitate cultural and natural heritage in the neighbourhood of these Cultural Routes; (d) set up cultural programmes and activities to continue rediscovering the historical, literary, musical and artistic heritage created along the European Cultural Routes; (e) promote the establishment of exchanges and twinnings between the villages, towns and regions located along these Cultural Routes;

Amendment 308 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 c (new)

32c. Calls on the Commission, building on the success of ‘DiscoverEU’, the free Interrail initiative for young people, to consider creating an action within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme so that young Europeans can obtain a travel voucher to visit and discover the Camino de Santiago Routes and other European Cultural Routes;

Amendment 309 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 d (new)

32d. Highlights the importance of the major European museums organising exhibitions that emphasise the European character of many of the continent’s artistic manifestations, which transcend national borders;

Amendment 31 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) represent at least 4.4 % of EU GDP and employ around 7.6 million people16 ; whereas over 90% of CCS companies are small- and medium- sized enterprises, and 33% of the workforce are self-employed 16a; whereas the cultural and creative sectors only recoup a minimal share of the economic value they generate, negatively impacting cultural and creative workers; _________________ 16a Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.

Amendment 310 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Welcomes the ~~initial~~first results of the ~~Preparatory Action European Spaces of Culture; invites the Commission to continue funding it~~European Spaces of Culture Preparatory Action; underlines the positive outcomes of the innovative collaboration models undertaken by the project partners, based on a call for ideas co-created with local stakeholders in the spirit of equal partnership; invites the Commission to continue funding this highly successful action; encourages cultural actors in the EU and third countries to explore further modalities of collaboration, such as co- creation of joint works of art, to foster mutual understanding;

Amendment 311 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Insists on the need to step up the fight against illicit trafficking in cultural goods; welcomes the recent Commission consultation in preparation of a new Action Plan to provide a clear, comprehensive and effective framework to the EU contribution to fight illicit trafficking of cultural goods, aiming at disrupting criminal activities and protecting cultural heritage in the internal market, as part of the EU strategy on organised crime;

Amendment 312 #

Željana ZOVKO, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, François-Xavier BELLAMY

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Insists on the need to step up the fight against illicit trafficking in cultural goods; calls for better cooperation between the EU and third countries in the preservation and protection of cultural heritage and the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods;

Amendment 313 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Welcomes the efforts undertaken by certain Member States to return cultural works and artefacts to their places of origin; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to support those Member States in their negotiating processes with countries outside the EU; calls on the Commission and the Member States to acknowledge as European cultural heritage, all member states' cultural heritage already existing even prior to the creation of the European Union, including therefore the cultural heritage coming from the ancient years as well as historic monuments of ancient European civilisations that are today out of the European Union's member states' territory;

Amendment 314 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. ~~Welcomes the efforts undertaken~~Has reservations about the efforts by certain Member States to return cultural works and artefacts to their places of origin; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to support those Member States in their negotiating processes with countries outside the EU; stresses that these actions create precedents that might impoverish and deplete European museums; points out that possessing works from all countries makes it possible for people to discover cultural diversity without an impact on their carbon footprint;

Amendment 315 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. Welcomes the efforts undertaken by certain Member States to return cultural works and artefacts to their places of origin as part of their external policy strategy and in order to foster mutual understanding of one another’s cultural heritage and to support the development of autonomous cultural policies in third countries; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to support those Member States in their negotiating processes with third countries ~~outside the EU~~in a holistic approach;

Amendment 316 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

Amendment 317 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

Amendment 318 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)

35a. Invites the Commission to explore concrete paths to uphold the freedom of artistic expression of artists at risk, especially as consequences of wars and geopolitical instability;

Amendment 319 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

~~36. Recalls the importance of promoting culture as a facilitator of sustainable development;~~deleted

Amendment 32 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) represent 4.4 % of EU GDP and employ around 7.6 million people16 ; stresses the unacknowledged importance of cultural and artistic workers and calls on Member States and the Commission to empower them by cross-country collaborations and promoting the circulation and mobility of EU CCS workers in a multidisciplinary approach, including by establishing a mechanism of EU recognition of their educational and work qualifications and skills; _________________ 16 Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.

Amendment 320 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Recalls the importance of promoting culture as a facilitator of sustainable development, which brings high potential for social and economic growth; calls on the Commission to facilitate the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through their active participation in regular dialogue, professional networks and multi-stakeholder partnerships, as well as through NDICI-funded actions in the area of culture;

Amendment 321 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Recalls the importance of promoting culture as a facilitator of sustainable ~~development~~social and economic development; underlines the valuable role that culture has in building peaceful inter-community relations and bringing people together;

Amendment 322 #

Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Peter POLLÁK, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Željana ZOVKO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Recalls the importance of promoting culture as a facilitator of sustainable development, especially through civil society organizations and with international partners;

Amendment 323 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)

36a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to assist Ukraine in its reconstruction and restoration efforts of damages in the culture and heritage sector caused by Russia’s war against Ukraine;

Amendment 324 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Recalls that, within the SDGs, promoting and safeguarding culture is both an end in itself ~~and~~, notably as enshrined in targets 4.7, 8.9 and 11.4, as well as a key contributor to the implementation of the UN 2030 UN Agenda ~~for Sustainable Development~~; highlights the transversal nature of culture and cultural projects, which enables them to contribute positively to the achievement of all SDGs; invites the Commission, EU Delegations to third countries and the Member States to explore further the interlinkages between culture and cultural policies and the achievement of all SDGs;

Amendment 325 #

Željana ZOVKO, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Recalls that promoting and safeguarding culture is both an end in itself and a key contributor to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; calls on the Commission and EEAS to organise more briefings and exchanges of views and practices in order to ensure the proper implementation of these common priorities;

Amendment 326 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Recalls that promoting and safeguarding culture is ~~both~~ an end in itself ~~and a key contributor to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development~~;

Amendment 327 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to advocate at the UN level for the inclusion of a self-standing goal for culture in the development agenda beyond 2030, as included in the final declaration of UNESCO’s MONDIACULT 2022, as well as to reaffirm the role of culture as a cross-cutting dimension of sustainable development;

Amendment 328 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to advocate at the UN level for the inclusion of a self-standing goal for culture in the development agenda beyond2030, as included in the final declaration of UNESCO’s MONDIACULT 2022, as well as to reaffirm the role of culture as a cross- cutting dimension of sustainable development;

Amendment 329 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

Amendment 33 #

Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Isabella ADINOLFI

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) play an important role in the EU economy as representing 4.4 % of EU GDP ~~and~~, employing around ~~7.6~~8.7 million people~~16 ; _________________ 16 Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultur~~2a, having amongst the highest rates in the EU in youth employment, gender balance, SMEs and self-employed and the potential to be drivers to local and cre~~ative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.~~gional development2b; _________________ 2a European Parliament resolution of 20 October 2021 on the situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU (2020/2261(INI)) 2b https://www.oecd- ilibrary.org/sites/eb146060- en/index.html?itemId=/content/componen t/eb146060-en

Amendment 330 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)

37a. Recalls that culture is a fundamental driver when it comes to facilitating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2030 and calls on the Commission to advocate for the inclusion of culture as a separate goal in the development agenda after2030;

Amendment 331 #

Željana ZOVKO, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Highlights the potential of culture and cultural heritage as a vector of peace, reconciliation and conflict prevention; calls on the Commission and EEAS to emphasise the role that culture can play in this regard and to provide assistance and education to partners in Member States and third countries in addressing security challenges related especially to the preservation and protection of cultural heritage in conflict areas and the fight against illicit trafficking of cultural goods;

Amendment 332 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Highlights the potential of culture and tangible and intangible cultural heritage as a vector of peace, reconciliation and conflict prevention; recalls that the destruction of cultural heritage may constitute a war crime, and in this respect recalls the Responsibility to Protect commitments undertaken by the Member States including in respect of protection of cultural heritage in the aftermath of as well as during armed conflicts;

Amendment 333 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Highlights the potential of culture and cultural heritage as a vector of peace, reconciliation and conflict prevention, as already experienced in the past, recalling as an example the massive impact of the famous lyrics ''all we are saying is give peace a chance'';

Amendment 334 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Highlights the potential of culture and cultural heritage as a ~~vector of peace,~~n engine of social and economic development, and at the same time, as a vector of peace, combating radicalization and promoting reconciliation and conflict prevention;

Amendment 335 #

38. Highlights the potential of culture and cultural heritage as a vector of peace, reconciliation, national identity and conflict prevention;

Amendment 336 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

38. Highlights the potential of culture and cultural heritage as a vector of communication, peace, reconciliation and conflict prevention;

Amendment 337 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

38a. Stresses the need for more rigorous monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of all actions within the framework of the New European Agenda for Culture and the 2016 Joint Communication on ICR, both on a strategic and project level, based on quantitative as well as qualitative targets, and for systematic, high-standard reporting; asks the Commission to develop a broader perspective on evaluating project results, taking into account also qualitative outcomes such as community- building values and lessons learnt from discontinued projects; urges the Commission and the Member States to ensure the sustainability of EU-funded cultural projects and initiatives over time;

Amendment 338 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)

38a. Warns the Commission, the EEAS, the EU Delegations in third countries and the member states that the EU-funded restoration of war-torn cultural heritage sites in third countries should not benefit war sides that are accused of human rights violations, legitimise authoritarian regimes, nor normalise relations with them;

Amendment 339 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. ~~Invites~~Calls on the Member States to take due account of Parliament’s position when approving the Work Plan for Culture 2023- 2026;

Amendment 34 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the cultural and creative sectors and industries (CCSI) represent 4.4 % of EU GDP and employ around 7.6 million people16 which is not adequately nor proportionally reflected in public funding for these sectors; _________________ 16 Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.

Amendment 340 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council ~~and~~, the Commission and the EEAS.

Amendment 35 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the cCultural and cCreative sSectors ~~and industries~~ (CCSI), represent 4.4 % of EU GDP and employ around 7.6 million people16 ; _________________ 16 Ernst & Young, Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis, January 2021.

Amendment 36 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas culture has a great potential to promote the values of the European Union, to strengthen its identity and to help achieve its goals at global level, as well as to contribute to the solution of global challenges such as combating violent radicalization and protecting world cultural heritage;

Amendment 37 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas EU efforts on forward- looking international cultural relations and cultural diplomacy should aim to promote values such as solidarity and fraternity, involving actors at all levels of public institutions and civil society, as well as local authorities that develop and preserve tradition and culture, all of which need to be supported more;

Amendment 38 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

Cc. considering that culture is also a tool for creating important social and economic benefits, both inside and outside the Union and has an important economic and job creation value and also contributes to the territorial balance;

Amendment 39 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas the allocation of financial resources specifically for international cultural relations to local authorities that develop and preserve tradition and culture would considerably increase their capacity to fully develop, unlocking their potential to promote mutual understanding between peoples and nations throughout world;

Amendment 4 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 c (new)

— having regard to the Santiago de Compostela Declaration of the Council of Europe of 23 October 1987, on the occasion of the proclamation of the Camino de Santiago as the first European Cultural Route,

Amendment 40 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic on the European CCSI has been dramatic but has been uneven across sectors; whereas site-based activities have been heavily affected by lockdowns, travel restrictions and other necessary sanitary measures, while sectors with a stronger digital capacity were in a better position to face the crisis;

Amendment 41 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic on the European CCSI has been dramatic ~~but has been uneven across secto~~with a loss of 31% of its turnover and has exacerbated the challenges faced by the sectors, in particular the living and working conditions of artists and cultural workers;

Amendment 42 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic on the European CCSI has been dramatic ~~but has been~~and uneven across sectors, which were the first hit and last to recover, therefore a 2% of the national RRF plans should be directed to CCS;

Amendment 43 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemic on the European CCSI has been dramatic but has been uneven across sectors, damaging particularly live sectors such as live music and all performing arts;

Amendment 44 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the impact of the measures taken in response to the COVID- 19 ~~pandemic~~outbreak on the European CCSI has been dramatic but has been uneven across sectors;

Amendment 45 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the Recovery and Resilience Facility investments fail to reflect the enormous economic and social significance of the cultural and creative sectors which account for 4.4% of the EU’s GDP and about 8.7 million jobs in the EU, leaving these sectors considerably underrepresented in the EU’s overall effort to overcome the pandemic and to support the recovery and resilience of the European economy; regrets that the Commission and the Member States ignored corresponding repeated calls by the European Parliament adopted by overwhelming majority1a; _________________ 1a e.g. in its resolution of 17 September 2020 on the cultural recovery of Europe and in its resolution of 20 October 2021 on the situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU

Amendment 46 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas public support measures contributed to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, varying widely between Member States, but did not always take into account the specific nature of employment schemes in the CCSI; whereas different legislative systems deepened the already existing inequalities between CCSI across the EU, hindering cultural diversity and cultural collaboration across Member States;

Amendment 47 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas most workers in the CCSI are atypical workers;

Amendment 48 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas in its Resolution on the cultural recovery of Europe, the Parliament called for an investment of 2% of the Recovery and Resilience Facility in the CCSI and reiterated the importance of appropriate investments in the EU cultural agenda; whereas only 16 Member States have included culture in their National Recovery and Resilience Plans and in most cases the investments and reforms are insufficient; whereas the 2% target has been met on average at the EU level, but the majority of Member States stays well under this figure;

Amendment 49 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

Db. whereas the pandemic has highlighted the vulnerable nature of the CCSI as highly fragmented; whereas workers in the CCSI, who are mainly employed on a project basis or on atypical or part-time contracts, were severely affected by the pandemic;

Amendment 5 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 d (new)

— having regard to the Statement of 30 December 2020 by Margaritis Schinas, European Commission Vice-President and Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life, on the Compostela Holy Year 2021,

Amendment 50 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital D c (new)

Dc. whereas the safety measures imposed during the pandemic deprived the CCSI of a significant source of income by making in-person access to CCSI institutions or initiatives impossible; whereas in many sectors certain cultural habits that disappeared during the pandemic have not systematically returned;

Amendment 51 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas Parliament, in its resolutions of 7 June 2007 and of 20 October 2021, called for the establishment of a European Status of the Artist, leading to a strengthening of the working conditions in the EU's CCS, mostly by establishing a European Framework for the protection of the labour and working conditions for CCS' workers, including social security and pension rights as well as a minimum standard income for all, leaving no one behind;

Amendment 52 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas Parliament, in its resolutions of 7 June 2007 and of 20 October 2021, called for the establishment of a European Status of the Artist as a common framework for working conditions and minimum standards common to all EU countries;

Amendment 53 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas Parliament, in its resolutions of 7 June 2007 and of 20 October 2021, called for strengthening the working conditions in Europe’s CCSI and for the establishment of a European Status of the Artist;

Amendment 54 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas cultural participation can be intended both as passive partaking and as active creation, regardless of the level - amateur or professional - to which the activity is undertaken; whereas both active and passive cultural participation have numerous economic, social and health benefits;

Amendment 55 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)

Ea. whereas the Parliament, in its resolutions of 14 September 2020 and of 20 October 2021, called for at least 2% of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans to be devoted to culture, a call echoed by Europe’s wider cultural and creative ecosystem;

Amendment 56 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas arts and cultural activities have long been recognised by the WHO2a to be beneficial to health ~~and mental well-being;~~ , including mental health, and to individual and societal well-being, particularly thanks to their multifaceted nature and components, including social interaction, sensory activation, emotional expression, cognitive stimulation and physical activity, and to their capacity to stimulate multiple psychological, behavioural and social processes; whereas arts and culture have played a crucial role in alleviating the suffering and distress felt by communities around the world subsequently to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine; _________________ 2a Fancourt D, Finn S. What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being? A scoping review. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe; 2019 (Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report 67)

Amendment 57 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas arts and cultural activities have long been recognised to be beneficial to health ~~and mental well-being~~, including mental health, and to individual and societal well-being, particularly in light of the aftermath of the pandemic; whereas the pandemic has revealed forcefully how invaluable culture is for the overall resilience of societies;

Amendment 58 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas arts and cultural activities have long been recognised to be beneficial to health ~~and men~~, including mental health, and to individual and societal well-being;

Amendment 59 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas workers in the CCSI have been significantly affected by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic;

Amendment 6 #

— having regard to the report by the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) Working Group of Member States’ Experts of 22 September 2022 entitled “Stormy Times. Nature and Humans: Cultural Courage for Change”,

Amendment 60 #

Salima YENBOU, Romeo FRANZ, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the arts and artistic disciplines are important components ~~of education;~~ and enablers of both formal, informal and non-formal education; whereas learning through and about arts and artistic disciplines contributes to the development of learners’ educational and social skills and competences, as well as developing creative thinking and transversal and transferrable skills;

Amendment 61 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the arts and artistic disciplines are important components of education; whereas these components are not being sufficiently developed in national school curricula; whereas through the strengthening of STEAM, Member States can promote a culture of innovation and creativity from a young age with a long-term impact;

Amendment 62 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the arts and artistic disciplines are important components of education, and therefore should get political support to be fairly included in the education systems in the EU, as included in school curriculums following all stages of children's and adolescents' development, thus in all educational stages;

Amendment 63 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the arts and artistic disciplines are important components of education, including with regards to freedom of expression;

Amendment 64 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the arts and artistic disciplines are important components of both formal and informal education;

Amendment 65 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the arts and artistic disciplines are important components of education and personal development;

Amendment 66 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas artistic research should be brought to a peer dialogue with other research disciplines and funded as such, because of both its self-value and its crucial contribution to triggering innovation;

Amendment 67 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas artistic research should be brought to a peer dialogue with other research disciplines;

Amendment 68 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas cultural rights shift from access to culture and audience development, which remain important to meaningful participation in culture and governance of the commons, with special regard to enhancing diversity, equality, inclusion, and democratisation of the shared public spaces, fostering dialogue with underrepresented communities, including women, youth, children, minorities, indigenous peoples, people of colour and people with lived migration experiences, persons with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ communities both in urban and non-urban areas;

Amendment 69 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas cultural rights should be safeguarded throughout the range from access to culture and audience development to meaningful participation in culture and governance of the commons, with special regard to enhancing diversity, equality, inclusion, and democratisation of the shared public spaces, fostering dialogue and social cohesion, while engaging all people, with a special attention to underrepresented communities, leaving no one behind;

Amendment 7 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)

Amendment 70 #

H. whereas the EU’s Creative Europe programme for the cultural and creative sectors is playing a key role in promoting the arts, culture and audio-visual content and in supporting high-quality media, as it encourages contribution to the Union's global strategy for international cultural relations with the aim of ensuring the long-term impact of the strategy through an interpersonal approach involving cultural networks, civil society and local organisations;

Amendment 71 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the EU’s Creative Europe programme for the cultural and creative sectors is playing a key role in promoting the arts, culture and audio-visual content and in supporting high-quality media, especially through supporting grassroots projects, small companies and artists, which ultimately benefits the safeguarding of European cultural and linguistic diversity and heritage;

Amendment 72 #

H. whereas ~~the EU’s~~ Creative Europe, the EU's framework programme for the cultural and creative sectors is, play~~ing~~s a key role in promoting the arts, culture and audio- visual content and in supporting high- quality media; whereas most of the target outputs of the Council Work Plan for Culture 2019-2022 have been achieved through actions foreseen by the Programme;

Amendment 73 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the EU’s Creative Europe programme for the cCultural and cCreative sSectors is playing a key role in promoting the arts, culture and audio-visual content and in supporting high-quality media, despite still being underfunded even after its budget increase in the current MFF;

Amendment 74 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. As a large number of creative communities are brought together in dedicated hubs, incubators and spaces in the Union and around the world, the Union should contribute decisively to the creation of networks between these communities in the Union and in third countries and to the promotion of a multidisciplinary collaborations at the level of artistic, creative and digital skills, keeping the focus on strengthening traditional culture, on small artists but also on preserving the cultural diversity of each area;

Amendment 75 #

Salima YENBOU, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas the 2018 Commission communication on a New European Agenda for Culture highlighted the importance of culture and the arts in the integration of refugees and other migrants;

Amendment 76 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas cultural relations are commonly defined3a as reciprocal, non- coercive, transnational interactions between two or more cultures, encompassing a range of activities that are conducted both by state and non-state actors; within the space of cultural and civil society; whereas the overall outcomes of cultural relations are greater connectivity, better mutual understanding, more and deeper relationships, mutually beneficial transactions and enhanced sustainable dialogue between states, peoples, non-state actors and cultures, building therefore more resilient societies; _________________ 3a British Council and Goethe Institut, Cultural Value - Cultural Relations in Societies in Transition: A Literature Review (2018), p. 7

Amendment 77 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas cultural diplomacy relates to states liaising with other states or their peoples through the medium of culture, with a dominance of the governmental and one-way advocacy perspective; over the mutual benefits and dialogue perspective; whereas cultural diplomacy is influenced by the politics inherent in foreign policy, is accountable to relevant state institutions and can be instrumentalised to support policy objectives4a; _________________ 4a Rivera T., Distinguishing Cultural Relations From Cultural Diplomacy: The British Council’s Relationship With Her Majesty’s Government, Figueroa Press (2015), p. 9-10

Amendment 78 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas digital technologies affect all aspects of cultural ~~institutes’ work~~life, as well as the work of artists, cultural workers, organisations and institutions, and can help them facilitate interaction with different audiences and opening access to their work; whereas various EU funding programmes and initiatives are supporting the digital transition of the sector, in particular Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the New European Bauhaus (NEB); whereas digitalisation in the cultural field also poses challenges to diversity, fair remuneration, access to culture, and deepens inequalities in particular due to the lack of adequate digital skills;

Amendment 79 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas digital technologies affect all aspects of cultural ~~institutes’ work;~~ life, including the work of creators, organisations and institutions, also posing challenges to diversity, fair remuneration, access to culture, and deepening inequalities due to various reasons including the unequal power concentration in the digital cultural environment;

Amendment 8 #

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 b (new)

— having regard to the Final Declaration approved by the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development - MONDIACULT 20221a, _________________ 1a https://www.unesco.org/sites/default/files/ medias/fichiers/2022/09/6.MONDIACUL T_EN_DRAFT%20FINAL%20DECLAR ATION_FINAL_1.pdf

Amendment 80 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas digital technologies affect all aspects of cultural institutes’ work; whereas digital technologies influence many aspects of the accessibility and enjoyment of cultural works, materials and initiatives;

Amendment 81 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas digital technologies affect all aspects of cultural ~~institutes’ work~~life, including the work of artists, cultural workers, organisations and institutions, also posing challenges to fair remuneration, access to culture and diversity;

Amendment 82 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas culture is a public good, cultural and creative sectors shall be supported with ambitious policy frameworks, adequate public financing and an enabling environment for CCS workers as well as for the audience's access to culture; whereas the New European Agenda for Culture should aim at preserving, expanding and disseminating a vibrant and diverse European cultural scene fostering the participation of all, leaving no one behind;

Amendment 83 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)

Ka. whereas the European Union must constantly engage in international cultural relations using its own instruments to shape the cultural face of the EU at world level and to complement the work of the cultural institutes of the Member States abroad;

Amendment 84 #

Ka. whereas digitization also has a strong potential and has changed the way in which CCS create, produce and share content, boosting opportunities to grow and rethink how to increase and diversify cultural participation;

Amendment 85 #

Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)

Kb. whereas the EU should support and allow the cultural institutes in the member states to work without intervening;

Amendment 86 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)

-1. Underlines the fundamental importance of culture in fostering mutual understanding, especially in international relations, and notably with regards to the power of cultural exchange in maintaining and regaining peace and overcoming wars; calls upon the Member States to acknowledge the increasingly transnational dimension and impact of culture and consequently to ensure adequate funding;

Amendment 87 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

Amendment 88 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Acknowledges the overall satisfactory implementation of the new European agenda for culture and of the joint communication towards an EU strategy for international cultural relations; ~~is delighted to note~~nonetheless, notes that the assessment of the implementation of the new European agenda for culture has highlighted shortcomings, mainly in terms of priorities; stresses that the two documents, despite haveing withstood the challenges posed by unforeseen crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can be further improved to develop a single comprehensive strategic framework encompassing both the new European agenda for culture and the EU strategy for international cultural relations;

Amendment 89 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Acknowledges the satisfactory implementation of the new European agenda for culture and of the joint communication towards an EU strategy for international cultural relations; ~~is delighted to note~~believes that the two documents have to a certain extent withstood the challenges posed by unforeseen crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, yet there is still room for improvement as noted by relevant EP resolutions, such as the Resolution on the Cultural Recovery of Europe and the Resolution on the Situation of Artists and the Cultural Recovery in the EU;

Amendment 9 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)

— having regard to the report by the OMC Working Group of Member States’ Experts of 4 May 2017 entitled "How culture and the arts can promote intercultural dialogue in the context of the migratory and refugee crisis",

Amendment 90 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Acknowledges that the Council Work Plan for Culture represents an essential tool for steering Member States strategies in addressing the issues that are relevant for the CCSI in Europe; in this regard, in terms of priorities, the forthcoming Council Work Plan for Culture should focus on: 1. recovery and resilience of the CCSI by further strengthening their ability to respond to future shocks; 2. Culture and sustainability by featuring culture as a driver of sustainable development, well-being and social justice; 3. Status, working and social conditions of cultural and creative professionals.

Amendment 91 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Highlights that the future Council Work Plan should increase cultural policy collaboration, mainly among Member States and should include frameworks of evaluation as an approach for monitoring implementation;

Amendment 92 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Points out that working methods foreseen by the Council Work Plan should be revised with a view to make them procedurally lighter and more effective and the setting up of targeted working groups should be considered;

Amendment 93 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Acknowledges that cultural Open Method of Coordination (OMC) lacks concrete and institutionalized follow-up mechanisms; recommends therefore the implementation of specific timelines and indicators that may allow follow-up actions or evaluation of Member States’ performance; calls to expand collaboration with non EU countries in OMC groups as it has proved beneficial;

Amendment 94 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Acknowledges that reports produced at OMC level have a limited direct influence on policymaking at national, regional and local level due to the lack of proper dissemination and connectivity between participating countries and national ministries; recommends therefore to produce reports with clear and concrete policy recommendations supported by a more evidence-based approach; furthermore, invites the Commission to disseminate information on the OMC findings widely at national and EU level in as many languages as possible, including digitally;

Amendment 95 #

Massimiliano SMERIGLIO, Petra KAMMEREVERT, Marcos ROS SEMPERE, Domènec RUIZ DEVESA, Hannes HEIDE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes the strengthening of~~Recalls that the next Council Work Plan for Culture represents an opportunity to advance towards a more comprehensive cultural policy at EU level; stresses that such an ambition requires commensurate funding; recalls that the cultural and creative sectors only recoup a minimal share of the economic value they generate and require new, alternative and stable sources of funding; therefore calls for a significant increase in funding for the Creative Europe 2021- 2027 programme which is still significantly underfunded to answer the needs of the cultural and creative sectors;

Amendment 96 #

Salima YENBOU, Laurence FARRENG, Ilana CICUREL, Lucia ĎURIŠ NICHOLSONOVÁ, Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ, Monica SEMEDO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the strengthening of the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme, notably the doubling of the budget compared to its predecessor, and the stronger emphasis on cultural diversity, inclusion, mobility, transnational creation and policy cooperation, and the digitalisation, greening and resilience of the CCSI; insists, though, on the need to ensure an adequate level of financing through a forthcoming revision of the MFF;

Amendment 97 #

Tomasz FRANKOWSKI, Sabine VERHEYEN, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ, Isabella ADINOLFI

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes the strengthening of the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme~~Regrets that the EU failed to sufficiently fund the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme, despite its significant budget increase in the MFF; is deeply worried that any annual budget cuts to the programme, proposed as a consequence of frontloading the budget, will seriously harm the recovery of the Cultural and Creative Sectors and thus undermine any attempt to strengthen the role of culture in the EU's international relations;

Amendment 98 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcomes the strengthen~~Underlines that the next Council Work Plan for Culture represents an opportunity to advance towards a more comprehensive cultural policy at EU level and calls for an increase in funding ofor the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme, which is still highly underfunded, in order to fulfil the objectives of the Programme;

Amendment 99 #

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. ~~Welcom~~Notes the strengthening of the Creative Europe 2021-2027 programme;

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2022/10/18 DEVE 6 amendments...

Amendment 1 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Reaffirms that culture is a key element of human development, a driver of sustainable development and an integral component of its social, economic and environmental dimensions~~, and~~; recalls that culture can create jobs, stimulate growth and foster long- term societal changes and progress, contributing to the stability and sustainability of communities and the strengthening of social cohesion; recalls that culture is instrumental in the implementation of the 2030 UN Agenda pledge to ensure no one is left behind and calls for strengthening the contribution of cultural actors to sustainable development through the recognition of authors, artists and cultural and creative operators as professional workers, participation in enhanced and inclusive dialogue, professional networks ~~and multi- stakeholder partnerships~~, exchanges and multi-stakeholder partnerships, and support to civil society organisations; underlines the need to strengthen the European Union’s diplomatic role as a global cultural partner in keeping with the spirit of the sustainable development goals; underlines that youth exchanges, city twinning and partnerships in the professional field have been important vehicles in fostering intercultural understanding and should be promoted by the EU in its development and foreign policies; reaffirms the need to facilitate international exchanges with the aim of fostering cultural relations and eliminating obstacles to mobility in the cultural sector;

Amendment 2 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Reiterates that culture and cultural heritage, including international cultural cooperation, is a lever for promoting EU values, including peace, democracy, the rule of law, freedoms, human rights and gender equality, offering the EU, its Member States and partner countries the opportunity to learn from cultures, good practices and know- how, to stimulate the development of the cultural and creative industries and to foster tolerance, intercultural and interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding;

Amendment 3 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the inclusion of culture as an area of intervention in the Global Challenges thematic programme under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) – Global Europe Regulation to foster sustainable social and economic development, and international cultural cooperation and the promotion of initiatives for cultural diversity; welcomes the contribution of the NDICI – Global Europe instrument to the Erasmus+ programme, notably the actions aimed at countries from the Global South not associated with the Erasmus+ programme; calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service to properly monitor and report regularly to Parliament on the state of implementation of actions involving international cultural cooperation and the results achieved by the NDICI – Global Europe instrument, particularly in the field of culture and education, including through the bi- annual scrutiny process (High-Level Geopolitical Dialogue), annual reporting and close evaluation of performance indicators;

Amendment 4 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new) and 2 b (new)

2a. Urges the Commission to provide appropriate funding for international cultural relations in existing programmes on culture and education, in particular by including cultural financing opportunities in geographical envelopes and also in the NDICI instrument’s thematic programmes; calls also for adequate funding for the protection, conservation and restoration of cultural heritage under NDICI – Global Europe, particularly in conflict-prone areas and regions vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change-related risks; calls, furthermore, on partner countries to strengthen their cultural policies; underlines that in order to be sustainable in the long-term, the EU’s external cultural funding activities must closely involve local partners – including civil society organisations – that programmes must be appropriate to local realities and that due consideration must be given to the post-funding period in project implementation and evaluation; 2b. Stresses that the EU has the potential to strengthen its international cultural cooperation partnerships through the Outermost Regions (ORs) and Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), which are located at geographical, cultural and linguistic crossroads around the world; calls for the EU to design international cultural cooperation projects involving the ORs and OCTs in order to foster regional integration and build new partnerships with partner countries;

Amendment 5 #

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Welcomes the integration of a specific chapter on culture under Title III (Human and Social Development) of the proposed partnership agreement between the EU and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS); calls for the strengthening of cultural programmes to stimulate job opportunities, tourism, inclusive and sustainable growth, and social cohesion, and to support the cultural sector which has been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; underlines that cooperation in this field should also address the fight against the trafficking of cultural heritage and contribute to efforts to ensure the return, restitution and conservation of cultural works and artefacts; recalls that the EU- CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement includes a separate protocol on cultural cooperation, which contains provisions on cultural exchanges and dialogue; calls for the preferential treatment of measures to facilitate a flow of cultural goods and services and to promote the mobility of artists from developing countries as defined by the 2005 UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions to be embraced in order to create an equitable global cultural sector; calls for the strengthening of cultural programmes to stimulate job opportunities, tourism, inclusive and sustainable growth, and social cohesion, in order to promote youth empowerment and gender equality, tackle harmful social and gender norms and stereotypes, fight against any forms of discrimination and to support the cultural sector which has been deeply impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to support and promote cultural rights in non-EU countries, including freedom of expression for artists, journalists and academics, and to promote free dialogue and the exchange of good practices at international level;

Amendment 6 #