From Television without Frontiers to the Digital Big Bang: The EU's Continuous Efforts to Create a Future‐Proof Internal Media Market

Pauwels, Caroline; Donders, Karen

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“…The 2007 AVMS was ‘a victory for liberal economic forces but it contains cultural considerations’ (Iosifidis, 2011: 163). The Directive also affirmed the ‘doubtful’ distinction between ‘new and older modes’ of culture service delivery, which provoked diverse criticisms (Pauwels and Donders, 2014: 531–540). In 2014, the Council of EU Ministers of Education and Culture adopted conclusions on the European audiovisual policy in the digital era, inviting the Commission to ‘assess whether the current regulatory distinction between non-linear and linear audiovisual media services is still appropriate in the context of digital era’ (Council of the European Union, 2014).…”

Section: The Debate Is Far From Over: To Define or Not To Define?mentioning

confidence: 99%

European Commission, trade agreements and diversity of cultural expressions: Between autonomy and influence

Vlassis

2016

European Journal of Communication

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The Convention on diversity of cultural expressions -adopted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2005 -is a main international instrument within the global governance of cultural and audiovisual industries. For its part, the European Commission played a critical role in the negotiation, leading to the Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions' adoption. In this respect, the article aims to explore why and how the Commission uses the Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions throughout the recent European Union trade negotiations, for which purposes and how the Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions influences the European Union foreign policy and its objectives. The article is more concerned with analysing the policy process through which the Commission's strategy is formulated in light of the Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions and of the place of cultural and audiovisual industries within the European Union trade agreements and also concerned with understanding whether the Commission's autonomy is transformed into influence within the policy process.

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Section: The Debate Is Far From Over: To Define or Not To Define?mentioning

confidence: 99%

European Commission, trade agreements and diversity of cultural expressions: Between autonomy and influence

Vlassis

2016

European Journal of Communication

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“…It distinguishes between linear and non-linear electronic communications, adopting a graduated (i.e. light touch) approach to non-linear, user-pull media services (Pauwels and Donders 2011). The directives are largely based on a liberal-economic argumentation (Wheeler 2007, 228), yet are relevant also in terms of the cultural diversity issue.…”

Section: Case 1: Television Without Frontiers and Audiovisual Media Smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Can it be reasonably expected that national governments enforce stricter cultural obligations to their own nationals, and at the same time handicap them while engaged in Community and international competition, "solely" for reasons of cultural policy or public interest? The economic costs might possibly outweigh the cultural or social policy benefits (Pauwels and Donders 2011).…”

Section: Case 1: Television Without Frontiers and Audiovisual Media Smentioning

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“…The adoption of the TWF directive, contested on several issues by the MS (Pauwels and Donders 2011), also entailed the promise to establish a pan-European support scheme for the audiovisual industries. Until that moment, attempts to do so had failed precisely because of the resistance of some MS protecting their own sovereignty and the fear of many that pan-European support would only result in flavourless Europuddings.…”

Section: Case 2: Eurimages and The Media Programmementioning

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Leading by Example? European Union Implementation of Cultural Diversity in Internal and External Audiovisual Policies

Pauwels¹,

Loisen

2016

Javnost - The Public

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This article aims to assess how the European Union (EU) deals with cultural diversity in the audiovisual sector in both its policy discourse and practice. The underlying question guiding the analysis is whether the EU commits to implementing policies to enhance cultural diversity. A first part gives an overview of the concept's development in time and in response to a specific political and economic context. The second part addresses implementation of the concept in the EU's internal market project and its external trade relations by means of an analysis of four distinct policy areas: the evolution of the main underlying regulatory framework; European support programmes for the audiovisual sector; competition policies targeting the sector; and dealing with the audiovisual sector in external trade relations. On the basis of this analysis, we aim to evaluate in a final concluding part the coherence of the overall EU approach and the prospects and pitfalls for increased cultural diversity in the audiovisual sector in Europe. We argue that the strong focus of the EU on cultural diversity in its discourse has led to some steps of policy implementation which generates a fledgling positive, albeit fragile and imperfect, dynamic for cultural diversity.

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“…While several commentators have noted how subsequent legal and policy actions by the Competition Directorate and the European Court have to a degree circumscribed the protocol (Harcourt, 2005;Michalis, 2010;Ward, 2004;Wheeler 2010), there is no doubt that, as Sarakakis (2004:115) says, it was 'an historical and significant event'. As Pauwels and Donders (2011) note, public service broadcasters 'are the only institution whose exceptional status is set out so explicitly in the official EU Treaty'.…”

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Reluctant Europeans – the BBC and European media policymaking 1992-1997

Andrews

2020

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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From Television without Frontiers to the Digital Big Bang: The EU's Continuous Efforts to Create a Future‐Proof Internal Media Market

Cited by 15 publications

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European Commission, trade agreements and diversity of cultural expressions: Between autonomy and influence

European Commission, trade agreements and diversity of cultural expressions: Between autonomy and influence

Leading by Example? European Union Implementation of Cultural Diversity in Internal and External Audiovisual Policies

Reluctant Europeans – the BBC and European media policymaking 1992-1997

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