Susanne Höhn, the Director of the
Goethe-Institut Brüssel, which acts as a coordination point on
behalf of its core partners on the Preparatory
Action on Culture in External Relations project, talks
about the necessity of adopting a strategic approach towards
culture at the EU level. The Radio interview taken by Deutschlandradio
Kultur, on the 12th of June, is available here:
Isabelle Schwarz, a member of the Steering
Committee, has dedicated an article to More Europe in
the Spring issue of Effect magazine, released by the European
Foundation Center.
The European
Voice mentions one of the pilot projects
proposed in the More Europe research paper prepared by Dr.
Damien Helly: a worldwide European cultural radio service.
Die Initiative „More Europe“ kämpft gegen
die Ökonomisierung aller Ideen. Mitten in der so genannten
Finanzkrise tritt die Initiative „More Europe“ gegen
Ökonomisierungswahn, Bankenmacht und die Dominanz des
Profitdenkens auch im kreativen Bereich an – unterstützt von
zahlreichen europäischen Kulturstiftungen oder dem
Goethe-Institut. Die Initiative will die alte europäische Idee
von der Annäherung durch Kultur und Kulturaustausch
wiederbeleben.
Leading European opinion leaders came
together in Brussels on 8 December 2011 to strongly unite behind
a new civic initiative More Europe. The event launched a 12
month long campaign, which aims to convince politicians and
policy makers to place cultural relations – one of the strongest
assets that Europe has – in the heart of the EU’s external
affairs.
Guest speakers at the conference held in Bozar expressed regret
that cultural relations, which are ever more important in
emerging countries, is absent from the newly established
European External Action Service and its policies.
