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Great prudence should always be shown each time that the EU intends to vest itself with a new area of competence. This is precisely the case with this report, which aims to strengthen cooperation between European cultural industries.
In principle, this objective does not raise any major objections. It is worth, however, expressing strong reservations on certain points contained in this document.
In a document in which everything or almost everything could be considered ‘cultural’, there is no clear definition of the idea of cultural works, something that opens the door to much abuse. It is also necessary to emphasise the danger of exploiting culture for European propaganda purposes and
the possible challenge to national cultural identity (which means exactly the definition of culture as an ‘essential and unifying element (…) of the citizens of Europe’?). Finally, what about the risk of misappropriation of public funds for projects with no real cultural or popular interest – money from European taxpayers cannot be used to subsidise elitist productions, destined for a ‘privileged’ minority.
For all of these reasons, I will not vote in favour of this report."@en1
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