[cma-l] Urgent - write to your regional MEPs to support community radio in Europe

[Paul Golder]

Did anyone else get a snarky reply from their UKIP MEP, or was it just us?

Paul Golder
Phoenix FM
www.phoenixfm.com




On 10 September 2013 13:04, Jaqui Devereux
<jaqui.devereux at commedia.org.uk>wrote:

> Dear all
>
> Please see below the call from AMARC Europe to lobby your local MEPs to
> support the proposal to the EU for a pilot project to fund community radio
> across Europe, including suggested text for an email to them.  We hope as
> many of you as can will send an email to your MEPs to support this
> proposal.  A list of your regional MEPs can be found here and their email
> addresses all use the same format - 1stname.surname at europarl.europa.eu
>
> http://www.europarl.org.uk/en/your_MEPs/List-MEPs-by-region.html
>
> Thanks
>
> Jaqui
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Last July I e-mailed you to ask you to lobby your MEPs to support the
> Pilot Project presented by the GUE/NGL group in the European parliament in
> behalf of AMARC Europe. The approval of this project will represent funding
> for projects carried out by Community Radios at European and National
> level. You can find all info about the project and the lobbying campaign on
> http://www.d1186807-19563.cp.blacknight.com/lobby-for-support-for-the-community-radio-pilot-project-proposed-to-cult-committee-of-european-parliament/. The latest news are not so positive,
> * as the Culture Committee of the European Parliament voted on the EU
> Budget 2014 on 5 September and the Pilot Project presented by AMARC Europe
> did not receive sufficient support to pass.*
>
> However, there is still a chance for the project to be passed, if approved
> at plenary level. The decisive vote will be in the *Budget Committee* on *2/3
> October*.
>
> The *deadline* for submitting an amendment to the Budget Committee is *12
> September* at 12.00. We need you to lobby your MEPs again to ask them to
> intercede with their European colleagues to support the project. And below
> I am including the text to send to your MEPs.
>
> In order to be successful it is important that the amendments are
> presented (AMARC will look after that) and supported by political groups,
> and in particular by the larger political groups, like the social democrats
> (labour party) and the conservative/christian democrat group (Fine Gael).
>
>
> Dear XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>
> On behalf of my organisation ______________________           (name of the
> radio) I would like to bring your attention to the Pilot Project entitled
> *Community Radios: Fostering European citizenship through cultural
> diversity and social inclusion *and tabled by Marie-Christine Vergiat MEP
> to the CULT committee.
>
>
>
> This Pilot Project concerns the need to foster European citizenship,
> cultural diversity and social inclusion through cross-border cooperation
> and reinforcement of the Community Radio sector in Europe in the EU budget
> for 2014.
>
> Community Media (CM) is now referred to as the “third sector” of media,
> alongside public and private commercial media. In recent years the *European
> Parliament* (2008), *the Council of Europe* (2009) and *UNESCO* have
> declared their support for CM, encouraging the Member States to recognise
> and develop community media because of its social functions.  We also
> recall the *OSCE** Human Dimension Seminar Media Freedom Legal Framework*of May 14, 2013, which highlights the need for recognition of the three
> sectors of communication.
> However, despise the important role of community media in fostering active
> citizenship, education and cultural diversity, *the Pilot Project
> presented by AMARC Europe did not receive sufficient support to pass when*
> *the Culture Committee of the European Parliament voted on the EU Budget
> 2014 on 5 September. *
>
> *However, there is still a chance for the project to be passed, if
> approved at plenary level. The decisive vote on the amended budget
> presented by AMARC Europe will be in the Budget Committee on 2/3 October.
> Community Media in Ireland and Europe would really appreciate if you could
> share your experience of community radio with the Budget Committee.*
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jaqui Devereux
> Director
> Community Media Association
>
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