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Actions taken in the cultural area by the European Union include:
experimental actions and the awarding of various grants.
The European Union gave grants to 233 cultural projects in 2004. Culture 2000 is a 7-year European Union program, which has among its key objectives preserving and enhancing Europes cultural heritage. ... The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one year during which it is given a chance to showcase its cultural life and cultural development. ... European Cultural Month is an event created by the European Union to promote culture. ... Media Plus is a European Union program designed to support the European Unions audio-visual industry. ...
The European Union has also launched a webportal dedicated to Europe and Culture, responding to the European Council's expressed desire to see the Commission and the member states "promote the networking of cultural information to enable all citizens to access European cultural content by the most advanced technological means." The European Council, sometimes informally called the European Summit, is a meeting of the heads of state or government of the European Union, and the President of the European Commission (not to be confused with the Council of the European Union, or the Council of Europe). ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive of the European Union. ...
Cultural cooperation in the EuropeanUnion has become a community competency since its inclusion in 1992 in the Maastricht Treaty.
The EuropeanUnion gave grants to 233 cultural projects in 2004.
The EuropeanUnion has also launched a webportal dedicated to Europe and Culture, responding to the European Council's expressed desire to see the Commission and the member states "promote the networking of cultural information to enable all citizens to access Europeancultural content by the most advanced technological means."
Unioncitizenship continues to gain in status and the European Court of Justice has stated that Unioncitizenship will be the "fundamental status of nationals of Member States" (see Case C-184/99 Rudy Grzelczyk v Centre Public d'Aide Sociale d'Ottignes-Louvain-la-Neuve, [2001] ECR I-6193, para 31).
EU policy is to encourage all its citizens to be multilingual; specifically, it encourages them to be able to speak two languages in addition to their mother tongue.
The EuropeanUnion or EU is a supranational union of 25 European states.
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