2 Amendments of Csaba MOLNÁR related to 2015/2104(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that culture is a powerful instrument for European diplomatic relations, fostering EU core values and global citizenship, and that it should be incorporated consistently into the EU’s external action; calls for a fruitful cooperation between the European Commission – more specifically its Directorate-General (DG) for Education and Culture and its DG for International Cooperation and Development –, the European External Action Service and the UN in areas such as cultural heritage at risk and illicit trade in cultural property, conflict prevention, the development of creative industries, the mobility of culture professionals, strengthening of student exchange programmes and relationships between people, cultural goods and services, and education in emergencies;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights the importance of cultural diplomacy and the fact that a common European cultural foreign policy would significantly increase the visibility of the EU in international organisations such as the UN; therefore asks the Commission to devote a separate chapter to cultural diplomacy in its global EU foreign and security policy being drawn up for the June 2016 European Council summit;