To Make the Silos Dance - Mainstreaming Culture into EU Policy, by Gijs de Vries

About the author Gijs de Vries is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where his areas of research include international cultural relations. In 2018-2020 he was an external expert in the German Foreign Ministry’s Reflection Group on Germany’s future strategy for international cultural cooperation (AKBP) and in the European Union’s Voices of Culture initiative on culture and the Sustainable Development Goals. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), a trustee of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO), and a member of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Gijs de Vries is a former Member of the Dutch Government and of the European Parliament. He was a co-founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

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To Make the Silos Dance - Mainstreaming Culture into EU Policy, by Gijs de Vries

Published on Dec 9, 2021

Agence luxembourgeoise d'action culturelle

To Make the Silos Dance is a paper written by Gijs de Vries, commissioned by ECF as a contribution to the Cultural Deal for Europe. Gijs de Vries is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where his research areas include international cultural relations. As Gijs de Vries writes in his introduction of To Make the Silos Dance: “There are three main reasons why culture matters to Europe and why it should figure more prominently in EU policy. Culture matters intrinsically; it is central to a life worth living. Culture also matters as a central component of our societies and economies. Finally, culture matters existentially, as a principal but vulnerable dimension of our common identity as Europeans.”

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To Make the Silos Dance - Mainstreaming Culture into EU Policy, by Gijs de Vries

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About the author

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Horizontal aspects

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Introduction

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Executive summary