23 June 2010, 6 pm, Brussels, European Parliament
Panel discussion by invitation of Doris Pack, Chair of the Committee for Culture and Education of the European Parliament
and co-organized by EUNIC and A Soul for Europe – Brussels office European House for Culture.
With the participation of: Elmar Brok, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, MEP; Finn Andersen, President of EUNIC and director of the Danish Cultural Institute; Volker Hassemer, President of the Board of Managers of A Soul for Europe; Alice Guitton, Member of Cabinet of Baroness Ashton, H.R.E.U.for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (tbc) and Gottfried Wagner, former Director of the European Cultural Foundation.
The discussion is aimed at thinking about tools, responsibilities, and competences in shaping Europe’s cultural foreign policies: How is Europe’s cultural potential reflected and translated in the European foreign policies? What role for the European Parliament – for the different committees - for the Commission and its DGs, for national foreign ministries, for cities and regions in a new policy setting? What set up of the new European External Action Service? What role for national cultural institutes and civil society?
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