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2007-2013 budget: heavy cuts for the MEDIA Programme?

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December 9, 2005


Institutions – Europe
2007-2013 budget: heavy cuts for the MEDIA Programme?
The next meeting of the European Council is about to be held (12/15 in Brussels) and the state of the cultural industry could not be more critical. The budget proposal put forward in London implies that a total of only 520 million euros should be spent on culture, professional training, health, and audiovisual activities.

The latter would be the most affected sector: it has only been a month since the Commission and the Parliament requested a billion euros for the new MEDIA Programme 2007 and Britain is suggesting something which would ruin de facto all possibilities of creating a proper support scheme for the audiovisual sector in all twenty-five countries of the EU.

Were the MEDIA Programme to bear on its own all the envisaged cuts —which is unfortunately to be expected, to save money for culture and professional training—, it would only be granted 300 million euros to support all member-states.

Considering the current budget of the old Media Plus Programme amounts to about 400 million euros, the British proposal would clearly put and end to all developments in the audiovisual sector, since it would lose €100M, that is, the Commission would only be granted 70% of the requested money.

The European Council will soon start working on this. In the meantime, several associations representing the audiovisual sector agreed to act as lobbies to the national governments to try to prevent the cuts from being approved. They unanimously intend to have the original budget request satisfied, because the requested amount is a 'necessary minimum' to deal with the 'chronic under-capitalisation' of the sector, as Ruth Hieronymi, who drafted a report on MEDIA 2007 for the European Parliament, explained.

Alessandro Menon - Eurocinema
http://www.cineuropa.org/newsdetail.aspx?lang=en&documentID=57406

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