The goal of this survey has been to collect and examine documents on the external cooperation policies of the European Union and its Member States with third countries in the field of culture. This has been done in order to assess the degree to which EU Member States support the strengthening of the cultural components of the EU's external relations and foreign policy.

The review of hundreds of policy documents, reports, statements on official websites, and other studies has indicated that there is an openness expressed by EU Member States to cooperate in external cultural policy, especially where the EU might support and complement initiatives of the Member States. To read more click here

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a Cultural Component as an integral part of the EU's Foreign Policy?

Start:  21/02/2005      Status:  Active      Ref:  ECFP

This bibliographical research project was inspired by the preliminary work of Kathinka Dittrich van Weringh and Ernst Schürmann, entitled “Does Europe need a cultural foreign policy?” (February 2004, www.eurocult.org), initiated by the European Cultural Foundation. The authors of this report, as well as, Palmer/Rae Associates (in a research project proposal on the cultural components of a European foreign cultural policy commissioned by ECF), propose the need for further research and possible policy recommendations for “a consorted action of the EU and the EU member states and the civil sector towards a more co-ordinated, more transparent and more enhanced EU cultural foreign policy, respecting the principle of subsidiarity”.