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"en.20021022.5.2-095"2
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Our position on culture depends on the type of policy it promotes and the values, principles and aesthetic standards it puts forward. The prime question is whether cultural activities function for the benefit of the workers and contribute to social progress or whether they function for the benefit of big business, extending its control and increasing its profits.
The report expresses the need for cultural processes relating to the performing arts to be incorporated – ideologically, politically and socially – into EU policy. It wants the theatre to serve the ‘European ideal’ and to apply policies such as mobility and lifelong learning. And it targets Mediterranean countries and the Central and Eastern European countries in particular.
What, however, is this ‘ideal’ we are being called on to support? If it is not clear, how can we be expected to aid and abet contradictory procedures, which resolve a few temporary problems (intellectual property rights, movement, education), but which also expose the fact that these problems were caused by the intervention of big business in each country's culture?
Similarly, we disagree with the dominant role of private companies and patrons and with the hazy outline of the nascent ‘European cultural identity’ and the methods being developed to impose it.
That is why the MEPs of the Communist Party of Greece abstained from voting."@en1
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