There are times when voicing your opinion can have a real impact, this is one of them.
The objective of this consultation is to gather views on various issues impacting the cultural and creative industries in Europe, from business environment to the need to open up a common European space for culture, from capacity building to skills development and promotion of European creators on the world stage. The responses to the consultation will inform the Commission and help it ensure that EU programmes and policies involving cultural and creative industries are "fit for purpose".
All of the information is available on the EU website http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-policy-development/doc2577_en.htm and you can make a personal response through the website.
At SEMN we have uploaded the Green Paper and created a 'crib' sheet of the questions which I hope will make the responses easier to do, we also added a recent speech from Neelie Kroes European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda which I think helps to set the scene. If you want to join in a forum or discussion group, please let me know on gina.fegan@semn.org.uk