Policy

Colombia's film legislation starting to bear fruit

March 2008 -

Thanks to an Columbian government initiative already hundreds of film projects have received support.

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Interview

South Africa and the Netherlands intensify cooperation in cultural heritage

February 2008 -

More cooperation and more joint projects are the results of the visit that the Dutch Deputy Minister of European Affairs, Frans Timmermans, paid to South Africa from 4 to 8 February 2008.

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Interview

New EU policy for culture and development

February 2008 -

According to Koos Richelle, Director General of Europe Aid, culture and development is still relatively unexplored territory for the EU and rapidly gaining importance.

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Review

Free Trade and Culture

February 2008 -

Peter Van den Bossche - Free Trade and Culture: A Study of Relevant WTO Rules and Constraints on National Cultural Policy Measures

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Cultural policy of non-western countries

South Africa (2008)

February 2008 -

They were turbulent years for South Africa's National Arts Council (NAC). Scarcely ten years after it was established in 1997, the art fund was completely disbanded.

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Bread and art for Nicaragua

january 2008 -

The European umbrella NGO Pan y Arte (Bread and Art) supported various independent projects in Nicaragua over the last fifteen years.

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Villa de Cine: Venezuelan government as film producer

December 2007 -

With government investments of more than thirteen million dollars, the Villa del Cine film complex that opened in Venezuela in 2006 is intended to significantly stimulate the local and Caribbean film industry.

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No takers for the Sadc Arts and Culture Festival

December 2007 -

So far no country has come forward to host the next event of a series which started in 1995.

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Cultural policy and international funds

Yehudi Menuhin Foundation

December 2007 -

The Yehudi Menuhin Foundation (IYMF) wants to give "a voice to the voiceless" with its cultural programmes.

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Interview

Minister Koenders: "Culture is an intrinsic part of combating poverty"

November 2007 -

"Central in the policy of development cooperation is how people want to be helped. That takes creativity and awareness. Culture gives the power and the space to work on the millennium objectives. It is an intrinsic part of combating poverty." Never before has Bert Koenders, the Netherlands' Minister of Development Cooperation, been so outspoken about the role culture plays in development.

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