{"id":377965,"date":"2025-08-27T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377965\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:37:09","slug":"eu-to-send-culture-chief-to-moldova-for-creative-europe-pact-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/377965\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to send culture chief to Moldova for Creative Europe pact \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union is sending its culture commissioner to Moldova to formally admit the EU candidate country to the bloc\u2019s flagship cultural funding program. <\/p>\n<p>In a diplomatic push designed to keep the country from falling under the Kremlin\u2019s sway, Commissioner for Youth and Culture Glenn Micallef heads to Moldova this weekend and will meet with President Maia Sandu on Tuesday, a Commission official told POLITICO. <\/p>\n<p>Once there he will sign a pact allowing Moldova to participate in Creative Europe, an initiative that provides billions in funding and support for the EU\u2019s cultural sector, from theater and television to music and video games. The program is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/european-commission-budget-ursula-von-der-leyen-ukraine-research-defense-technology-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set to be expanded<\/a><strong> <\/strong>in the bloc\u2019s next seven-year budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union is sending its culture commissioner to Moldova to formally admit the EU candidate country to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2766,13071,33,2000,299,5187,36,1824,23664,660,51099,13491,269,770,1438,18111,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-377965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-culture","9":"tag-disinformation","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-glenn-micallef","17":"tag-kremlin","18":"tag-maia-sandu","19":"tag-moldova","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-poland","22":"tag-romania","23":"tag-society-and-culture","24":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115101476037179594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377965","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=377965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}