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Similar to us, the new year is also bringing new main actors and agendas to the fore of the EU’s political scene. That is precisely the case of Sweden, which on 1st January took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU from the Czech Republic. Stockholm will be presiding over the work of the institution representing the 27 EU’s governments for the first half of 2023, until 30 June next, when it will be passing the baton to Spain. “A greener, more secure and freer Europe is the foundation of our priorities,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said...
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Silencing Dissent? – On barriers to freedom of artistic expression “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers,” states Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Although this right has existed for more than two decades, Karima Bennounce (2018) noted that the exercise of these rights has recently been threatened in the cultural sphere, “by those who advocate various forms of domination and discrimination, as well as by various populists, fundamentalists and extremists.” This...
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A short cultural policy profile for Poland is now available on the Compendium website. A special thanks goes out to our Polish expert Maciej Koziel. Below you can see a few highlights of the cultural policy developments in Poland: A new Polish Culture in the World programme will start in 2023 to support individual participation in cultural events outside the country A new legal Act regulating the terms of organising and financing cultural activities in Poland is required to give stability to the running of institution On 23.02.2022, the day before outbreak of Russian invasion on Ukraine, Ministry of Culture...
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The Comendium has a lot planned for this year to promote its community and strengthen its role as a monitoring platform for European cultural policy. In order to be transparent and give others the opportunity to participate in the processes, we would like to give an outlook on the year 2023. To research and monitor. As an information exchange and monitoring portal, the Compendium often sees the difficulty of scientific research and processes not being able to adapt immediately to our fast and ever-changing world. But at a time when one crisis follows another and human rights are being...
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“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers,” states Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Although this right has existed for more than two decades, Karima Bennounce (2018) noted that the exercise of these rights has recently been threatened in the cultural sphere, “by those who advocate various forms of domination and discrimination, as well as by various populists, fundamentalists...
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UNESCO For UNESCO, artistic freedom is the freedom to imagine, create, and distribute diverse cultural expressions free of governmental censorship, political interference, or the pressures of non-state actors. It includes the right of all citizens to have access to these works and is essential for the wellbeing of societies. Freemuse Freemuse is an independent international NGO advocating for freedom of artistic expression and cultural diversity. It aims to improve legal and policy framework and practices of artistic...
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A short cultural policy profile for Finland is now available on the Compendium website. A special thanks goes out to our Finnish experts Anna Kanerva and Nathalie Lefever. Below you can see a few highlights of the cultural policy developments in Finland: From 2023, municipalities will receive additional funding from the state for the well-being and health of their residents. This may have implications for cultural funding at that level. A post COVID 19 report in 2022 recommends removing barriers across administrative branches, increasing the financial resources for arts and culture to one per cent of the budget expenditures by 2027,...
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After each legislative election, a Grand-ducal decree establishes the ministries and defines their respective attributions. According to the decree currently in force, the ministry of Culture is competent for all areas relating to national and international cultural policy, cultural heritage protection, the coordination of national cultural institutes, relations with public and para-state cultural institutions and the implementation of the current Cultural development plan (KEP)[1]. Furthermore, there are a number of advisory councils to the ministry of Culture in the area of music, books, libraries, as well as commissions for heritage sites and religious edifices. These committees generally gather experts from...
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Background[1] Due to the centuries-long occupation of the country by various foreign powers, culture and cultural policy are not based on a linear tradition. With the State acting as a manager-conservator for a long time, an evolution came only towards the second half of the 1970s with a definite acceleration from the 1990s onwards, the European Capitals of Culture of 1995 and 2007 playing a substantial role in this regard. 1939-1974: the first concrete act of cultural policy in post-war Luxembourg was the approval of the UNESCO convention in 1947[2]. The State also opens the National Museum of History and...
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