Belgium's EU Presidency to focus on film

Belgium has promised to prioritise discussion on cinema now it has began its presidency of the EU, with particular focus on national and regional film subsidies.

Each nation within the EU takes over the EU Council Presidency for a spell of six months, with Belgium beginning theirs on 1st July. Film policy under its stewardship was on the agenda at a three-day conference held in Mons last weekend.

"We want to discuss moving from a Cinema Communication document that concentrates on production aid to one that encompasses more broadly and exhaustively all the types of aid that we judge to be legitimate and necessary when it comes to the creation, production and promotion of European cinema," said Frederic Delcor, head of Belgium's French community government cinema center.

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