The European Parliament considers Europe’s cultural aid program, Europe Creative, to be useful, but largely insufficient. The elected representatives are now calling for an upward revision for the next program, between 2028 and 2034. The European Parliament is pursuing the mission it set itself several years ago to increase European funding for culture. It had already achieved a first success in 2021, by obtaining a hard-fought 68% increase in the budget for the Europe Creative program between 2021 and 2027. And by ensuring a diversification of the sectors eligible for aid: until now, the bulk of European aid to the creative sector had gone to the audiovisual sector. From now on, more funds will be reserved for music, publishing…
