{"id":1030205,"date":"2026-06-16T13:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1030205\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:08:23","slug":"uk-report-highlights-post-brexit-problems-touring-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1030205\/","title":{"rendered":"UK report highlights post-Brexit problems touring in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK Parliament\u2019s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee certainly has its dander up when it comes to urging changes in the music industry.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/publications\/53567\/documents\/299094\/default\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Its latest report focuses on the barriers British artists face when touring Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, this is a post-Brexit thing. The report runs through the challenges that artists face, particularly young and emerging musicians. Cross-border travel and work, movement of goods, and transport and logistics are its three focus areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report offers plenty of thoughts on how the British government can fix these problems: negotiating with the European Union and individual member states to ease the red tape, while also providing more support and advice to artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is not about renegotiating Brexit, it\u2019s about addressing the issues that weren\u2019t covered off in the first place and finding new ways to support our touring artists,\u201d said the committee\u2019s chair, Dame Caroline Dinenage MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe heard clearly that there is strong demand for our talented performers from audiences across Europe, so it is in the interests of both sides to work together to find a solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Industry body\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukmusic.org\/news\/uk-music-chief-executive-welcomes-new-report-urging-government-to-tear-down-eu-touring-barriers-and-back-performers\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">UK Music has welcomed the report<\/a>, with chief executive Tom Kiehl throwing an extra punch at Brexit\u2019s \u201cdisaster of a deal between the UK and EU which totally forgot the needs of touring musicians, performers and cultural workers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK Parliament\u2019s Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) committee certainly has its dander up when it comes to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1030206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[7793,802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,7413,65715,16,46960,15],"class_list":["post-1030205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-artists","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-great-britain","tag-live-music","tag-touring","tag-uk","tag-uk-music","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116759947387810126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}