On 2 May 2018, the European Commission adopted its Proposals for a future EU budget and decided to increase by more than 30% the budget dedicated to the MEDIA Program.

Having advocated for a more ambitious MEDIA budget over the last years, EFAD would like to welcome the agreement reached by EU negotiators on November 10 about the EU budget for the next 7 years.

While the European Commission proposed €1.5 billion and the Council €1.64 billion, the agreement provided

A stronger MEDIA programme for better promoting European audiovisual diversity and competitiveness

The association of the European Film Agency Directors (EFADs) would like to express its concerns about the recent proposal from the Council of the European Union to cut the 2017 budget of the Creative Europe programme and in particular the MEDIA sub-programme.

The EFADs publishes new report summarising the Cannes roundtable discussions on challenges and solutions to online distribution across borders