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Budgetary increase for Creative Europe MEDIA
Organisations from accross the film and audiovisual sector welcome the budgetary increase for Creative Europe MEDIA.
No geoblocking for Film and Audiovisual contents
50 Film & Audiovisual stakeholders, including FSE, welcome EU Commission short-term review of the Geo-blocking Regulation.
FSE supports the Slovenian Film Community
Joint statement from several European organizations to support the Slovenian film community facing disastrous governmental pressure as public film funding is blocked.
110 European cultural networks’ joined letter on Culture and Recovery
Culture must play a fundamental role in Europe’s recovery. CCSs call for Culture to be an integral part of European and national recovery & resilience plans and budgets.
Joint Statement : Private Copying Compensation Under Attack
Some of the world’s biggest consumer device manufacturers are aggressively targeting the Visegrad Four countries to weaken national legislation or application of the existing legal framework on private copying. EU organisations and unions representing authors, performers, publishers and creative workers call on governments and EU decision-makers to take a firm stand against this new attempt to undermine a system that has long benefitted European creators, culture and society.
FSE president Carolin Otto addresses EU leaders on freedom of expression
In a letter to EU leaders, FSE president Carolin Otto expresses her deep concern about the erosion of democracy in some countries of Europe, the regular attacks on the rule of law of the European Union and the consequences for artistic freedom and freedom of the media.
Investing in Europe’s next generation by investing in culture.
94 organisations from Europe’s CCS are uniting to alert EU leaders: our sector needs strong & systemic support measures to recover from this crisis.
FSE President Carolin Otto calls on EU Culture Ministers to put arts, culture & creativity at the centre of our recovery.
“As screenwriters we know the essential role which culture and the arts play, and will continue to play, in each of the member states as we construct and reconstruct our identity as citizens and as Europeans.”
Investing in our culture is investing in our future.
More than 80 signatories from the Europe’s cultural and creative sectors call for ambitious EU budgetary measures to get through the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 FSE newsletters
Regular review of various initiatives taken to tackle Covid-19 crisis in the audiovisual and cultural sectors, based on news from FSE member guilds, film funds, authors’ organisations in Europe and worldwide, newspapers, etc.