Abstract
The role of culture as a vector for a common European house: the challenges of the EU action and the mobilisation of players in the field of culture to build a European casa comum
Highlights
The process of the building of Europe is not a long river that glides along, and today, as the sociologist Monica Sassatelli puts it, one may wonder if it has lost the plot[2]
This paper explores the EU action related to culture and the role cultural actors may play in fostering a cohesive European society open to its neighbours and beyond
It analyses the articulation between the EU cultural action, and the way it may answer the needs and priorities of the cultural players, supporting the development of uma casa comum
Summary
Culture was included in the European legislative corpus thirty-five years after the foundation of the European Communities in 1957. The publication of the New Agenda reflects the state of the arts of the EU cultural action nowadays: an approach to culture and the creative sector that increasingly concentrates on its economic asset; a number of actions fostering culture provided it promotes objectives that serve social, economic, environmental or security policies; and a delicate balance between the role that all the stakeholders dealing with culture should engage in to implement a European cultural agenda, be they institutions, cultural organisations or private sector To implement these agendas, the European Commission has developed since the 90’ a series of programmes addressing culture, such as “Creative Europe”, formerly named “Culture”, promoting mobility, cultural diversity, and more recently competitiveness in the cultural and creative fields. This opportunity didn’t translate into a dynamic cultural and artistic scene, which I will explain by addressing a number of issues
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