Cultural cooperation in the European Union has become a community competency since its inclusion in 1992 in the Maastricht Treaty. The European Union or EU is a supranational organisation of European countries, which currently has 25 member states. ... This is the history of the European Union. ... The Enlargement of the European Union is the growth in size of the European Union, from the six founding member states in 1952, to the 25 current member states. ... The European Union has over 456 million inhabitants in its 25 member states. ... The European Union has 25 member states as of 1 May 2004. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Maastricht treaty (formally, the Treaty on European Union) was signed on 7 February 1992 in Maastricht between the members of the European Community and entered into force on 1 November 1993. ...
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. ...
Foci of the conference include aspects of culture and culture policy in the eastward enlargement of the EuropeanUnion and ensuing issues between West Europe and Central and East Europe and issues in culture and culture policy within the cultures and countries of Central and East Europe.
The aim and purpose of the conference include the intent to initiate knowledge-based discussion about issues of culture policy in Hungary (where the concept -- largely speaking -- is fraught with negative associations owing to the concept's history and meaning in the communist period of the country), in Germany, and the EuropeanUnion.
In the wider context of globalization, culture, culture policy, and the EuropeanUnion, it is evident that there is a lack of dialogue for a better understanding of the new Europe.
The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the EuropeanUnion for a period of one year during which it is given a chance to showcase its cultural life and cultural development.
Conceived as a means of bringing citizens of EuropeanUnion (or EC, as then was) closer together, the European City of Culture was launched on June 13, 1985 by the Council of Ministers on the initiative of the Greek Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri.
The European Cities of Culture were designated on an intergovernmental basis until 2004; the Member States unanimously selected the cities most likely to welcome the event and the EuropeanCommission granted a subsidy to the selected city each year.
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