“When will there be a European authors’ party?”
José Jorge Letria, journalist and President of the Portuguese Society of Authors, recently wrote on the Portuguese newspaper Público, launching the idea of a European Authors Party. Check below why it “has all the conditions to become an intervention and fighting tool for many hundreds of thousands of authors from several countries and different areas of creation which can complement the work of collective management societies.”
In May 2014, the citizens of the 28 European Union countries are going to elect the members of the European Parliament. There is a high expectation about the level of participation because the unfamiliarity and indifference gap between national voters and the institution whose members they are electing has never been truly bridged, probably because said voters have never considered how much the decisions of the Brussels-Strasbourg axis affects the lives of each country’s community and, for that matter, each of our lives.
During a recent meeting with societies of authors from all over Europe, the European Commission officer in charge of Private Copy matters, Kerstin Jorna, stated: “The next European elections will need strong candidates if a new cycle is to begin and, to a large extent, if the European Union’s future itself is to be ensured. But this has to be based on clear ideas.”