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Chinese umbrellas in Sarlat, Southern France

 

Sources of information about EU Foreign Policy:

MEMO of Budapest Observatory: Strategy in the making?

"A report was submitted in the European Parliament about the cultural dimensions of the EU’s external actions. The effort has a long pre-history.

The preambula of such reports are often the hotbed for bullshit, a collection of presumptuous slogans. Not this one! The Schaake report describes culture in nine unpretentious statements (from A to I). Yet not without weight and originality, see for instance the first one: “the EU is a culturally diverse community of values”.

Besides the usual common sense proposals calling for more synergy, new is the accent on digital diplomacy and on the Unesco diversity convention.

What is missing from the report is the assessment of the survival capacity of the old paradigm in cultural diplomacy, the predominance of nation branding at the expense of promoting joint European values."

Regional Observatory on Financing Culture in East-Central Europe
(The Budapest Observatory) – Peter Inkei

H-1051 Budapest, Október 6 utca 14
Tel: (361) 327 3829
Fax: (361) 374 0898
http://www.budobs.org
bo@budobs.org

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