What is the future of European culture?
Paul Owens
And I think there are a good arguments and I think that in those arguments lies the future of Europe’s global competitiveness. So I have not got a problem with the overal vision and overal strategy. In fact I wish that in UK we were more switched on to those arguments because as you know in UK we alway think about ourselves and behave in semi-detached way from the rest of Europe which I think is regrettable because we miss a big opportunity there. However I think the way that vision is then translated into programmes and this is probably a function of us, of organizations as much in Europe.
I think those can be much too formula like and much too rigid and much too top-down. And so I think that for example you know it is loadable to bring all the different programmes together under a single programme Creative Europe is a loadable think and to be encouraged and to probably make it easier to understand. But I still think that a lot of the thinking and a lot of the actual operational side of the programmes are of much too mechanical and much too formula like. And in a sense that based on managerial models that I think it is going to be very hard for a truly interesting and creative parts of the cultural sector of different countries to really take an advantage of. Because that is I think too much a gap inbetween the way they think and way they operate and some of these kind of bureaucratic systems.
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