The Creative Europe programme is the flagship instrument in support of the cultural and creative sectors – and the only one designed by the EU to support them specifically.

The new programme will continue to promote cultural and linguistic diversity, heritage and competitiveness, and will allow cultural and creative organisations and professionals to co-create and cooperate across borders and to reach wider audiences, tackling current societal questions and supporting emerging artists.

The new programme will invest 2.2 billion euro in the cultural and creative sectors, recognising the importance of culture and helping the sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from a 36% budget increase, MEPs have managed to secure more of a focus on inclusion and gender equality, as well as special support for contemporary and live music sectors that are among those hit hardest by the pandemic.

Creative Europe

EP Plenary session - European Cultural Compass as a driving force for economic competitiveness and resilience

Plenary session - European Cultural Compass as a driving force for economic competitiveness and resilience

Press conference on cultural diversity and the conditions for authors in the European music streaming market

LEX Signing ceremony: - signature of ten COD LEX by David SASSOLI, EP President and by Ana Paula ZACARIAS, Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, on behalf of the Presidency of the Council

EP Plenary session - Creative Europe Programme

Press conference on Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps

Group of musicians rehearsing during their stay in an artists residency at "Espace Culturel Django Reinhardt", in Strasbourg, France.

Creative Europe - Artists

Creative Europe - Graphical arts

MEPs vote on the following topics: Economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance; Maximum residue levels for thiacloprid; EC/Indonesia Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Partnership and Cooperation; Empowering consumers for the green transition; Dental amalgam and other mercury-added products to manufacturing, import and export restrictions; European music streaming market; Anti-corruption structures in Slovakia and its implications on the Rule of Law; Promotion of the freedom of scientific research in the EU; Implementation of the Treaty provisions on national parliaments; Implementation of the Treaty provisions on EU citizenship; European port strategy; Implementation of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA); EU strategy on Central Asia; Security and defence implications of China's influence in the EU; Policy implications of virtual worlds; European historical consciousness; and other topics.

Voting session

Members discuss on a common European status for artists, a common framework for working conditions and pan-European minimum social standards for artists and cultural workers. Statement by Monica SEMEDO (Renew, LU), author of the report on the situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU and the vote results (Wednesday 20 October).

The situation of artists and the cultural recovery in the EU: statement by Monica SEMEDO (Renew, LU), rapporteur and extract from the final vote

David SASSOLI, EP President, and Ana Paula ZACARIAS, Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, participate in a Lex signing ceremony. The signatures will be placed on ten agreements: Report by Markéta GREGOROVÁ (Greens/EFA) on the Control of exports, Report by Marisa MATIAS (The Left, PT) on EIT Regulation, Report by Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP, CZ) on the European solidarity corps, Report by Maria da Graça CARVALHO (EPP, PT) on the EIT agenda 2021-2027, Report by Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT) on Creative Europe, Report by Milan ZVER (EPP, SL) on Erasmus +, Sven GIEGOLD (Greens/EFA, DE) on Fiscalis, Report by Clare DALY (GUE/EFA, IE) on Pericles IV, and Report by Rasmus ANDRESEN (Greens/EFA, DE) on the European Cybersecurity Centre. This ceremony is followed by the signature of the Interinstitutional Agreement on a mandatory Transparency Register adopted by the EP in April 2021.

LEX Signing ceremony: signature of ten COD LEX by David SASSOLI, EP President and by Ana Paula ZACARIAS, Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, on behalf of the Presidency of the Council

MEPs debate and vote the next ‘Creative Europe’ programme (2021 to 2027). The new programme will invest 2.2 billion euro in the cultural and creative sectors, recognising the importance of culture and helping the sector recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Extracts from the debate and the vote and statement by Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT), rapporteur.

Creative Europe Programme: extracts from the debate and the vote and statement by Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT), rapporteur

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels (17-20 May 2021), MEPs debate on the Creative Europe Programme, the European Commission's framework programme for support to the culture and audiovisual sectors. With a budget of €1.46 billion (9% higher than its predecessors), it will support Europe's cultural and creative sectors. Closing statement by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth.

Creative Europe Programme: closing statement by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels (17-20 May 2021), MEPs debate on the Creative Europe Programme, the European Commission's framework programme for support to the culture and audiovisual sectors. With a budget of €1.46 billion (9% higher than its predecessors), it will support Europe's cultural and creative sectors. Opening statement by Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D,IT), rapporteur and by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. This transcription speech is the result of an automatic process. Check against delivery.

Creative Europe Programme: opening statement by Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT), rapporteur and by Mariya GABRIEL, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

Milan ZVER (EPP, SI), rapporteur on Erasmus+, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT) rapporteur on Creative Europe, Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP, CZ) rapporteur on European Solidarity Corps, and Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE), Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) give a joint press conference in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Press conference on Erasmus+, Creative Europe and European Solidarity Corps by Milan ZVER (EPP, SI), Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT), Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP, CZ) rapporteurs and Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE), CULT Chair

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels (17-20 May 2021), MEPs debate on the Creative Europe Programme, the European Commission's framework programme for support to the culture and audiovisual sectors. With a budget of €1.46 billion (9% higher than its predecessors), it will support Europe's cultural and creative sectors.

Creative Europe Programme: MEPs debate

Creative Europe programme is an EU programme for culture and audiovisual sectors for 2021-2027 with a focus on music, women and inclusion. This Infoclip illustrates a Philharmonic concert with a audiovisual captation without public, musicians creating live electronic music on stage, female artists at work (aquarelle, sculptures, painting...), an independant bookshop.

Infoclip: Creative Europe - support to the culture sectors

Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE), Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) and Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT) make a statement on the Creative Europe final trilogue, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Creative Europe final trilogue: statement by Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE), Chair of the CULT Committee, and Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT)

Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE), Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), Milan ZVER (EPP, SL), rapporteur for Erasmus+ programme, Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT), rapporteur for Creative Europe programme, and Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP, CZ) speak to the press on the negotiations on Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Solidarity Corps programme – state of play and where next?, after the debate on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027, in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Press conference on the negotiations on Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Solidarity Corps programme by Sabine VERHEYEN (EPP, DE), Milan ZVER (EPP, SL), Massimiliano SMERIGLIO (S&D, IT) and Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP, CZ)

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