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Although of economic importance, culture is above all about citizenship. The diversity and quality of culture and the capacity to participate in cultural creation are elements of a democratic society that cannot be ignored.
In this respect, public intervention is crucial. Financial support must be provided for cultural creation and production in order to ensure diversity and vitality and to avoid concentration in the hands of a few, often American, multinationals. Today, though, systems of public aid are threatened by the thinking that makes the market pre-eminent over everything else.
In the EU, these systems may be considered to be ‘State aid’ prohibited as being contrary to European competition law, which is sacrosanct. We must regret, in this respect, the result of the Convention, which leaves the existing texts as they are instead of promoting aid for culture to the ranks of aid that is automatically authorised. A formidable sword of Damocles thus hangs above our cultural policies.
At international level, we must safeguard the cultural exception, particularly in light of the GATS, by ensuring that the unanimity rule is maintained in relation to trade agreements in the field of culture."@en1
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