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OUR VOICE IN THE EU

On this page, you will find our position papers, statements, responses, and recommendations on current European issues related specifically to the live music sector, as well as the broader creative and cultural industries.

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IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF THE LIVE MUSIC SECTOR

2025

  • Joint letter: Rethinking Digital Practices & Spaces
  • Joint letter: UK & EU live music actors unite to demand urgent action to remove touring barriers across Europe
    • Response: Common Understanding for a renewed agenda for European Union – United Kingdom cooperation : “The European Commission and the United Kingdom recognise the value of travel and cultural and artistic exchanges, including the activities of touring artists. They will continue their efforts to support travel and cultural exchange.”

2024

  • Unveiling Europe’s Live Music Scene: Market Dominance and Cultural Diversity
  • Podcast: Independent Voices Face High Ownership Concentration: Mapping the Cultural Landscape

2023

  • A New European Vision for Touring

2022

  • Europe’s Live Performance Sector Signs Open Letter for Tougher EU Rules on Online Marketplaces
  • Safe Touring in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States
  • European Cultural Community Support with Ukraine

2021

  • Call to Support the Cultural Relations Between the US and the EU

2020

  • Feasibility study for the establishment of a European Music Observatory

  • Analysis of market trends and gaps in funding needs for the music sector

2019

  • White Paper – Music is Not Noise (also available in Spanish, Catalan, Finnish, French, Swedish)
  • EMC Members Decide on Climate Action

2018

  • 75 Organisations Joint Statement: Revision of the Visa Code
  •  European Agenda for Music
  •  Citizen-­oriented  Cohesion  Policy  with  a  prominent  place  for  culture

2017

  • Culture at the heart of a sustainable Europe: Political Statement on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Rome Treaties 

2016

No Sustainable Development without Culture [PAGE NOT FOUND]

ONE VOICE FOR EUROPEAN MUSIC INITIATIVE

2024

  •  One Voice under the Belgian Presidency | Summary of Recommendations

2023

  • One Voice under the Swedish Presidency

2022

  •  One Voice under the Czech Presidency | Summary of Recommendations
  • One Voice under the French Presidency | Summary of Recommendations

EU ELECTIONS

2024

  • Recommendations to MEPs for 2024 EU Elections

2019

  • Statement for 2019 EU Elections
  • Live DMA’s 2019 EU Elections Campaign : Report

STRENGHTENING LIVE MUSIC THROUGH FUNDING

2023

  •  Letter of concern regarding the 2024 Creative Europe Budget Cuts

2020

  •  Keep the UK in Creative Europe
  • Investing in Europe’s Next Generation by Investing in Culture
  •  Uphold Culture in the EU Budget
  • InvestEU – Ensuring Support for Cultural & Creative Businesses
  • Europe’s cultural and creative sectors call for ambitious EU budgetary measures to get  through the COVID-19 crisis

2019

  • Joint Letter in Support of a Sectorial Focus on Music in Creative Europe
  • Investing in our Culture is Investing in Our Future
  • Securing a Sustainable Future for the European Non-Profit Cultural Sector
  • Music Sector Calls on MEPs to Support Strong Budget for 3rd Edition of Music Moves Europe
  • Bring Back Culture in the New European Commission
  • Music Moves Europe Structured Dialogue
  •  Letter to President Tusk: Belonging & Becoming

2018

  • The Future of Creative Europe
  • Citizen-Oriented Cohesion Policy with a Prominent Place for Culture
  •  Boosting the EU Culture Budget
  • Reaction of the European Alliance for Culture and the Arts to the European Commission’s proposal for the EU future budget
  •  Post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework: Call for a substantial and meaningful support for culture and the arts as generators of an EU added value 

2017

  • Statement on the European Commission’s Communication “Strengthening European Identity through Education and Culture” 
  • Statement on Culture in regions and cities 
  • Statement on the Reflection Paper on the Social Dimension of Europe
  • Culture at the heart of a sustainable Europe: Political Statement on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Rome Treaties –

COVID-19

2021

  • EU Guidelines on Reopening of Cultural Events
  • Claiming a Front Row Seat for Music
  • Joint Letter on Reopening of Live Events
  • Joint Letter on Relaunch of Venues & Events
  • Stay Alive – Evaluation of the effects of the pandemic by Live DMA

2020

  • Cultural Diversity at Stake – Live DMA Reacts
  • Make Culture Central in the EU Recovery
  • Europe’s Cultural And Creative Sectors Call For Ambitious EU Budgetary Measures To Get Through The COVID-19 Crisis
  •  Music Sector Joins Together to Call for EU & National Investment to Adress Cureent Crisis and promote Diversity
  • Effect of Covid-19 on Creative Europe and the Europeas CCS
  • Covid-19 Statement: Special Support for Small Live Music Organisations