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- The effectiveness of audiovisual regulation inside the European Union: the television without frontiers directive and cultural protectionism
- I. INTRODUCTION In early January of 2002, Jean-Marie Messier, the chief executive of French audiovisual giant Vivendi Universal, held a press conference to discuss his company's latest acquisition: American-based USA Network's media business. (1) During the conference, a French journalist asked Messier whether this latest $10.8 billion purchase marked...
- Research articles 2003-09-22
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- Gates, Soyinka receive European Culture awards in Berlin
- Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and African Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka recently were awarded prestigious European Culture of Peace Awards during ceremonies in Berlin. The awards are presented by the City for the Cultures of Peace, an international network of distinguished scholars, scientists, artists, musicians and professionals...
- Research articles 2007-08-13
- Heimat - A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1900
- Heimat--A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990. By ELIZABETH BOA and RACHEL PALFREYMAN. Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii+ 234 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-19-815922-6 (pbk 0-19-815923-4).The untranslatable term 'Heimat' is both cosy and...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- A EURO POOL PARTY.(new venture capital fund for European filmmakers)(Brief Article)
- New fund draws previously shy private banks PARIS European Culture Commissioner Viviane Reding is dangling a carrot for cash-starved European filmmakers. A new venture capital fund, created in tandem with private banks that until now "haven't...
- Research articles 2000-11-20
- BOOKS: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR FIXED PRICES
- Summary: Adopting a report by Jessica Larive (LDR, Netherlands) on the promoting of books and reading on January 21 in Strasbourg, the European Parliament has asked the Commission to establish a system of fixed prices for books within linguistic areas. The Parliament also advocated making...
- Research articles 1993-01-30
- DEPT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT: Success at EU Culture Council
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 June 1998-DEPT FOR CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT: Success at EU Culture Council C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:010698 -- Agreement reached on European Cities of Culture (United Kingdom to have a City of Culture in 2008) UK Arts Minister Mark Fisher presided over a...
- Research articles 1998-06-02
- La regle du jeu: French-inspired plans to protect Europe's film industry are extremely silly.
- The European Commission begins deliberations in Mar 1995, on whether to further restrict non-European films and TV shows on European television stations. Protectionism will do little to preserve European culture and will only serve to keep the European fiThe European Commission begins deliberations in Mar 1995, on whether to further...
- Research articles 1995-03-18
- Advantage Mickey Mouse: European broadcasting. (European Commission delays imposing quotas on non-European television programs)
- DAZZLED by the guardians of French culture on one side and American movie moguls on the other, the outgoing European Commission has failed to make new rules for beaming television across EU borders. Now Jacques Santer's new team, which takes over from DAZZLED by the guardians of...
- Research articles 1995-01-07
- European consumer hosts.
- Europeans can be intensely sensitive, particularly when it comes to American mannerisms ("rude, crude and vulgar" about sums it up), American English ("Oh those awful slang words and that flat accent"), American culture "Gangsta rap and violent movies. This is culture?!"), American food (never suggest McDonalds...
- Research articles 1996-04-01
- CULTURE : EP REPORT BRINGS EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY A STEP CLOSER.
- The project to create a pan-European digital library came a step closer with the adoption of an own-initiative report by Marie-Helene Descamps (EPP-ED, France) in the Culture Committee of the European Parliament on 16 July. The library's creation should allow access to Europe's cultural heritage through...
- Research articles 2007-09-05
- A culture tariff. (brief reports on two recent rulings by the World Trade Organization and India's plans to end import controls)(Brief Article)
- The World Trade Organisation ruled that the Canadian government is wrong to cite preservation of its culture as a reason to shield Canada's press from its American rivals. The WTO also ruled against a European Union ban on imports of hormone-treated beThe World Trade Organisation ruled that...
- Research articles 1997-07-05
- Beatles to help celebrate Liverpool as city of culture
- LONDON AFP — Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on Thursday helped unveil a programme of events in Liverpool next year, when it will be European Capital of Culture. McCartney, who performed alongside Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison in the world-famous band, said he was proud of...
- Research articles 2007-09-27
- ESRI European conference: the 20th anniversary of this annual conference saw users attending from throughout Europe and Russia.
- Few events can match the atmosphere under which 800 people met at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland recently for the annual ESRI 20th European User Conference. In this building, given as a gift by Stalin to the people of Poland at t ...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Jose Carreras kicks off Genoa's year as "European capital of culture 2004"
- GENOA, Italy AFP ? Spanish tenor Jose Carreras has kicked off Genoa's year as the "European capital of culture 2004", singing to a crowd of nearly 2,000 at the start of year-long celebrations in the northwest Italian port city. Romano Prodi, the president of the European Commission, was among...
- Research articles 2004-01-09
- Culture and national identity: 'the East' and European integration.(Statistical Data Included)
- Relying on data from language use, religion and exposure to popular culture, this contribution evaluates the extent to which there is a cultural divide separating member states of the EU from Eastern European applicant states. To address this issue, the study makes three claims. First, despite the vibrancy of national...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- B-School Buzz: Green MBAs, European Programs in Middle East, and BS at HBS
- Stacy Blackman's Weekly Roundup of B-School Intelligence "Green" MBAs still a bright spot in economic downturn --Â Although MBA programs with an environmental focus emerged as a way to connect with sustainability-minded students, today such programs thrive, more often than not, for the access to wider job...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Hey hey! - efforts to replace required Western Culture course at Stanford University
- Hey Hey! 'HEY HEY, ho ho, Western culture's gotta go," they're chanting out at STanford, where leftist protestors are intent on replacing the university's required course in Western Culture. The course introduces freshmen to 15 acknowledged classics of Western thought from Plato to Mill, but . . ....
- Research articles 1988-02-19
- Chris Smith welcomes GBP20m of EU support for culture.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-29 January 2001-UK Government: Chris Smith welcomes GBP20m of EU support for culture C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29012001 Fifty UK cultural organisations benefit from EU Culture 2000 programme Culture Secretary Chris Smith today welcomed the announcement by the ...
- Research articles 2001-01-29
- CULTURE MINISTERS FACE THE MUSIC.
- Europe's culture ministers met informally with representatives of the music industry, on 21 January, on the fringes of the international music festival Midem in Cannes. According to the European Commission, discussions centred on the "economic aspects of culture," and on "the music sector's contribution to ...
- Research articles 2007-02-05
- Shaping the Vision, the Identity and the Cultural Image of European Places
- in order to construct their identity and construct their image as a 'final provided good'. This paper investigates the relationship between vision, local identity and image, focusing on culture and tourism. The international bibliography shows several cases, mainly European places that support their competitiveness through cultural and tourism development. In...
- White papers 2005-08-23
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