#SaveEUYO update

​Long Term solution: Time for hope: "A solution for 2016 to prevent the Orchestra from closing down would be based on an amendment of the Creative Europe programme'scurrent work programme, the main EU funding instrument for the cultural sector, by the implementation of an action grant for the amount of EUR 600.000.
For 2017, the European Parliament is proposing a "pilot project" to ensure that the EUYO has operational funding by amending the Commission's general budget proposal. The Commission would support this amendment. Several Member States expressed their support for the EUYO during the EU Culture and Audiovisual Council which took place on 31 May.
In the long run, the Commission will propose to the European Parliament and to the Council sustainable solutions in the framework of the Creative Europe Programme which will provide certainty for the EUYO to continue its activities. In parallel, the Orchestra is invited to seek additional, complementary sources of financing to expand its activities. 
The services of the Commission will work on the details to ensure that the activities and expenditures of the EUYO are managed according to the rules and to ensure there is tight control over how funds are used and that the money is spent in a transparent, accountable manner.
​http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2035_en.htm

The EU's Commissioner for Culture inacurate responses - The minister confirmed to artistsunited.be that he supports our action and that he has added this to the agenda on 31 may! - Une avalanche de réactions - L'Allemagne demande l'action - Youtube 20/05/2016 clip - lettre de l'EFNYO -  Sir Simon Rattle..

30/05/2016 The EU's Commissioner for Education, Youth, Culture and Sport, Tibor Navracsics, was called to respond to the Council of Ministers questions about the lack of funding for the European Union Youth Orchestra. The EUYO welcomes the Commissioner's statement that the Commission is trying to find a funding solution. However we are concerned that his public remarks contained some inaccurate and/or misleading information. Read more, click EUYO_response_20160530.
(His answers can be seen and heard in the following recording of the public part of the EYCS Council of Ministers session: http://video.consilium.europa.eu/en/webcast/fde64e21-cb86-4b1a-bb8a-88dd118b98fb - the relevant extract from the Commissioner starts at approximately 02.00.00)

30/05/2016 The minister confirmed to artistsunited.be that he supports our action and that he has added this to the agenda on 31 may!! : "Geachte heer Le Compte, Hartelijk dank voor uw bericht en bijkomende informatie. We kunnen u bevestigen dat het dossier van het EUYO toegevoegd werd aan de agenda van de Raad op 31 mei. Als minister steun ik deze toevoeging, samen met de ministers uit de andere Gemeenschappen. Met vriendelijke groeten, Sven Gatz Vlaams minister voor Cultuur, Media, Jeugd en Brussel"
Merci, dankuwel, thank you, gracias!
 

Le monde réagit
http://www.euyo.eu/discover/news/campaign-for-eu-funding-for-euyo-gains-momentum-as-music-and-culture-worlds-in-uproar/

L'Allemagne demande l'action
Germany’s culture minister, the estimable Monika Grütters, has said her government will work in Brussels to find a solution that will prevent the abolition of the European Union Youth Orchestra.
Ms Grütters is politically and personally close to Chancellor Merkel. The Brussels culture commissioner Tibor Navracsics has suddenly said he does not rule out the possibility of a new funding application from EUYO
http://slippedisc.com/2016/05/germany-demands-rescue-plan-for-eu-youth-orchestra/

Youtube 20/05/2016
https://www.youtube.com/#SaveEUYOBelgianEdition

EFNYO, European federation of national youth orchestras
Letter from EFNYO

Sir Simon Rattle
"The decicion has not been thought trough. It takes years to build up ochestras like this, and one ignorant signature to end it. And then it takes many years to build up something like this again. It is an unnecessary loss". http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=59287

la-culture-génère-des-revenus-de-536-milliards-deuros​
http://www.artistsunited.be/fr/content/blog/la-culture-génère-des-revenus-de-536-milliards-deuros