Include culture in your national recovery strategies and reactivate cultural life in Europe. This is the message more than 110 signatories, GESAC included, are sending to Member States and government authorities today. (more…)
GESAC has cosigned a letter with six live event organisations, urging the European Commission to take the lead in coordinating the reopening of Europe’s cultural venues and the relaunching of cultural life.
Europe’s creative economy has been decimated by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Venues remain closed, productions postponed and advertising revenues have plummeted.
But 2019 was a different story. Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) represented some of Europe’s biggest employers, some of its most diverse and fast-growing sectors, and a major contributor to European GDP. The balance of trade in culture posted a net surplus of €8.6 billion in 2019. (more…)
Last summer, EU member states committed to an unprecedent €750 billion recovery plan that now needs to be implemented in every country.
Turning over the COVID page will be a demanding challenge, but Europe can count on a major ally: its cultural and creative industries (CCIs). As emphasised in a new study, CCIs are much more than just another sector to bail out of the crisis, they are a significant component of Europe’s solution to this crisis.
