STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

Street Artists in Europe
law, coverage of unemployed periods, etc.). It could for example encourage the Member States
to facilitate, even harmonise when possible, the procedures artists (and therefore street artists)
must deal with by envisaging, for instance, making administrative steps free of charge and more
rapid; simplifying, for equipment required for artistic services, going through customs and
security barriers, and so on.
7.4.2. Contributing to the development of a cultural policy
Valorising the considerable contribution of street arts to the success of European Capitals of
Culture (ECOC programme): the European Union could, for example, stipulate in the next
invitations to tender for this programme that street arts must be an integral part of the candidate
city’s proposal and that the evaluation of the candidatures filed will be done according to the
place given to street arts and the support measures that will be proposed for them once the
programme is ended.
Moreover, thanks to the installation of artistic teams in peri-urban, rural or socially
disadvantaged contexts, street arts have greatly increased the number of positive experiences in
the social field): it would be legitimate for the parliamentarians to support European projects
concerning the exchange of experiences. The wish of many street arts to work more with
disadvantaged publics must be heard and supported on the European level (better access to
European Social Fund credits).
Lastly, in the framework of building the European Union’s exterior policy and asserting
European cultural influence internationally, street arts should unquestionably hold a special
place. Likewise, they could take part in pre-adhesion, neighbourhood and co-operation
operations in development actions.
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