The EU is concerned that its citizens are choosing Hollywood entertainment over European. Mon Dieu! How to fix this? Samizdata sez:
"Understandably alarmed by this disturbing outbreak of free market value judgments, the EU has swung into action and established a 'Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport' (no, really!) that has produced a 'working document'"
The working document is only eight pages, but it is eight pages of this:
"Article 151 of the Treaty on the European Community defines major objectives for
community action in the cultural field. Community action is based on co-operation and
respects cultural diversity and the principle of subsidiarity: the Union can only become
involved in cultural activity if the its action presents a European added value.
Article 22 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which will be incorporated into the Treaties
(Treaty) stipulates that "the Union shall respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity".
Successive programmes and various reports have introduced other values and objectives,
which have then been translated into actions and means to achieve results."