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Culture Action Europe’s campaign calls on EU leaders to place culture at the heart of public policy. It’s time to Ask, Pay, and Trust the Artist to strengthen democracy, competitiveness, and
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💫 MCA is pleased to announce our new presence on the social media Bluesky!

🔗 Feel free to join, to exchange or to contact us: michael-culture.eu!

We're ready for this new adventure!

#Innovation #CulturalHeritage #MichaelCultureAssociation

Live from @culturaldealeu.bsky.social Policy Conversation

Nicolas Schmit makes an interesting case not just about the importance of culture, but also about the digital space and its role in the "battle for Europe".

Bottom line: we are behind and we are losing places.

Oh no OpenAI 🫠

It's so bad when someone takes something you created, and over which you have copyright, without asking and uses it for business purposes without compensating or acknowledging you.

Wait, where did I hear a similar story? Right, creators and artists' works used for AI training...

For all my cultural policy friends, go follow @culturaldealeu.bsky.social - on February 4th they will host in Brussels the most important conversation of the year with the EU Commission, MEPs and the civil society.

Register here to watch it live: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

As we brace ourselves for yet another tumultuous chapter in global climate diplomacy - @chiaramartinelli.bsky.social reflects on how climate unity can be Europe's trump card:

caneurope.org/europes-clim...

#TrumpInauguration2025

One umbrella organisation of 30 Jewish peace groups – European Jews for Palestine – say they were snubbed by the EU’s antisemitism “tsar”, after twice requesting an invitation to the Holocaust remembrance conference.

It dropped!

The website by the Polish presidency of the #Council of the #EU is here.

🚦Waiting for a debriefing article on MCA website, here is thread about what we can see already, from the #culturalpolicies perspective.

polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/
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"My voice, my choice"

✍️I just signed the European Citizens' Initiative for safe and accessible abortion in the EU.

This proposal asks the EU to indulge Member States to create safe and accessible conditions for abortion.

I warmly invite you to do the same
eci.ec.europa.eu/044/public/?...

⚡Berlin announces massive €130 million cuts to its culture budget.
Just last year, Euronews' headline: 'Berlin's new culture budget more than doubles England's arts funding'. How quickly things change.
www.euronews.com/culture/2024...

Always nice to hear or read the brilliant colleague Luiza Moroz from Culture Action Europe!

🎙️In this interview, she delves into cultural matters: the EU priorities and perspectives in the field of culture, artistic freedom suppression...

Read it here: creativesunite.eu/article/pres...

Tbilisi tonight.

Great insights, especially in the article:

"Digital art work and AI: a new paradigm for work in the contemporary art sector in China"

Artistic practices are changing - the artisanal labour is still there, it is just taking a different shape.

🇪🇺President von der Leyen's Commission has just been confirmed by the Parliament by 370 votes.

Aside political considerations, it's interesting to see what this commission is planning to do around cultural, digital and research policy.

MCA wrote about it here: michael-culture.eu/culture-digi...

Where is Bluesky legally established in the EU what are its user numbers? Even modestly sized platforms need a page with such details as per the Digital Services Act. A spokesman for @ec.europa.eu said on Monday that the search is now on "for any trace" of @bsky.app in the EU's 27 member states.

We are moving full speed: Michael Culture and Culture Action Europe on AI Act, copyright, transparency - while also participating to the AI Office discussion.

🔍The article also provides a general overview of the topic.

Read it and share it: michael-culture.eu/consideratio...

Feminist strike in Paris, Nous Toutes - November 23

"Feminism is anti-racist and anti-fascist. For a decolonial feminism."