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I agree with the rapporteur’s observations that ‘Europe’s cultural industries reflect its national diversity and thus represent an added value to European identity’ and that ‘culture is an essential element of European integration’, contributing to mutual understanding between Member States and their people, which is essential and desirable.
I agree with the contention that SMEs are privileged media for disseminating culture, deserving the support of both Member States and European institutions.
Given the very great number of cultural agents, I doubt whether the existence of an overall EU strategy, or of any policy deriving from such a strategy and all-embracing enough to implement it, would be beneficial or feasible in this field.
In the same way, I feel it is acceptable to protect and promote some aspects of a country’s cultural production at national level, to avoid the risk of concentration, criticised in other areas of economic and social life, from spreading to the sphere of culture. This may confront us, under the pretext of challenging US hegemony in this area, with the prospect of cultural industries in countries possessing greater means and larger markets wielding an undesirable degree of control. That would jeopardise the very diversity we want to maintain and encourage.
While I understand the rapporteur’s intentions and support many of the proposals she suggests, I was unable to vote in favour of this report, and therefore abstained."@en1
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