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This report contains some highly contradictory aspects. On the one hand, there is a constant attempt to hide the true situation in Europe. There is no single ‘European cultural heritage’, particularly as a reference for ‘humanism, tolerance, democracy’ and so on. The whole cultural history of Europe, just like its history in general, is not built solely on diversity, admirable creative energy and progress, but also on violent conflict, intolerance and many lines and contexts of cultural domination. A single heritage is a fiction, fed previously by cultural Eurocentrism (Europe as a ‘vanguard’ and other aspects mentioned) and fed nowadays by the oft-repeated myth of a ‘European’ cultural identity.
On the other hand, however, the political intention to assert a European identity contains positive elements. This is because this assertion of identity is not just intended to assert a ‘European’ cultural identity, but to guarantee resistance to the pressure exerted by the dominant cultural industries of the US (defence of linguistic and cultural diversity; consideration of cultural industries as a ‘protected space with regard to trade rules’; finding that the ‘EU’s trade balance in cultural goods and services is unfavourable’).
We therefore abstained in the end."@en1
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