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7 years of culture Solutions’ analyses echoed in the Culture Compass
The Culture Compass for Europe, released last week by the European Commission, is a significant and welcomed milestone for EU international cultural relations. Over recent years, culture Solutions has analysed the growing importance of ICR for the EU’s external partnerships, as well as the need to address internal and external cultural challenges in a coordinated manner. Seeing these core arguments now embedded in the Culture Compass represents both a success and a meaningful step forward. In this article you will find the 10 key strategic directions mentioned in the Compass that reflect research produced by culture Solutions.
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Culture in the next MFF: What space for external cultural action in the next Global Europe financial instrument?
Building on the high-level roundtable “Culture in the Next EU Budget”, organised by the European Parliament, this second article highlights areas of external cultural action where the EU could benefit from a stronger and more coordinated presence.
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Culture in the next MFF: Internal and external cultural policies both at threat?
On 23 September 2025, the high-level roundtable “Culture in the Next EU Budget”, organised by the European Parliament as part of its long-term budget campaign “Invest in what matters.” In this first blog blog of the series, we analyse the prospects for the internal and external cultural policies in the 2028-2035 MFF.
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cS Brief #15: Africa-Europe cultural and creative partnerships: a draft joint strategy
This draft joint strategy for both African Union and European Union institutions and member states focuses on the development of their mutual cultural relationship and their support for the global cultural and creative sectors. In times of conflictual geopolitics, the aim of the strategy is to strengthen ties between African and European societies and their cultural and creative ecosystems, while addressing shared trends and challenges relevant to both partners.
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cS Brief #14: Recentering the human and cultural dimension in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership: the Pact for the Mediterranean, a not-to-be-missed opportunity
30 years after the Barcelona Declaration, this brief builds on the first dialogue for the new Pact for the Mediterranean. Cooperation with cultural actors in the Euro-Med region faces regional instability and shrinking civic space. While the EU’s approach evolves, more action is needed on civil society and youth, artistic freedom and mobility.
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cS Brief #13: Equitable Digital Transformation and International Cultural Relations: Which priorities?
Amid data race, biases and digital divides, this brief examines how can culture and creative professionals advocate for an equitable age. The brief builds on cS dialogue #2 and focuses particularly on US, UK and EU frameworks and caselaw.
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What next for EU International Cultural Relations: Questions for the Commissioners-designate for Culture, International Partnerships and Foreign Affairs
This post poses key questions to the three Commissioners-designate directly related to International Cultural Relations: Glenn Micallef, Jozef Síkela and Kaja Kallas, as well as to other EU services, with a view of recognising the central role of culture in the European Union’s external relations.
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EU-LAC cultural diplomacy: from natural partners to partners of choice, via Madrid
After the EU-CELAC Summit in July 2023, this blog post focuses on the political context and the cultural cooperation at the official level. It examines the New Agenda for EU-LAC relations and the role of Spain, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU.
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Weapons and renewable energy for peace and climate: A European Culture Facility
A year into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this blog post argues that the EU and its Member States urgently need to adjust their external cultural action to recent geopolitical paradigm shifts. It is now time to create a European Culture Facility to live up to climate, security and cultural challenges and avoid risks of international audiences’ indifference.
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Contribuer et compter : Les recommandations de culture Solutions reflétées dans la résolution parlementaire du 14 décembre 2022
Cet article examine la résolution du Parlement européen sur la mise en œuvre du nouvel agenda de la culture (2023-2026) et la stratégie de l’UE pour les relations culturelles internationales, et relie ses principales recommandations aux contributions passées de culture Solutions.
