Archivo de la categoría: Cultural goods

European Parliament Plenary Session – Some relevant texts adopted this week (17 – 19 January 2023)

European Parliament Resolution of 18 January 2023 on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy – Annual Report 2022 (2022/2048 (INI)) – EN
European Parliament Resolution of 18 January 2023 on the implementation of the Common Security and Defense Policy – Annual Report 2022 (2022/2050(INI)) – EN
European Parliament Resolution of 18 January 2023 on human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – Annual Report 2022 (2022/2049(INI)) – EN
European Parliament Resolution of 19 January 2023 on the EU response to the protests and executions in Iran (2023/2511(RSP)) – EN

EU Action Plan against Trafficking in Cultural Goods

Photo by Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images. It is a carved marble that was seized in 2016 by French customs authorities at Roissy Airport, in transit from Lebanon to Thailand, and further exhibited at Louvre Museum.

Today, the European Commission has presented an Action Plan to fight illicit trafficking of cultural goods. With a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach, the Communication includes measures to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute criminal activities against cultural goods, and ways to strengthen and improve police and judicial cooperation in this field – EN

Promoting tolerance

Radicalisation ha become a major concern at both International and European level, and also in Spain. The terrorist attacks perpetrated in the past few years and those committed last days in Manchester and London were committed mostly by European citizens, who were born and grew in EU Member States, and radicalized and attacked fellow citizens.

The prevention and fight against radicalization and violent extremism leading to terrorism required a multidisciplinary approach, covering not only investigative measures and criminal proceedings against these types of crime, but also social cultural, ideological, and religious factors accelerating radicalization processes of men and women leading them to travel to conflict areas (Syria, Irak) in order to combat in Daesh or serve its intereses and returning to their countries of origin with an extremist ideology.

In line with policy measures adopted by International and European institutions, the Summer Course analyses this phenomenon with a multidisciplinary approach: legal, humanist, educative, protective of our cultural heritage, committed with third countries and areas of conflict. Only this approach makes possible countering terrorist propaganda and hate speech in Internet, as well as combating the return of foreign fighters, among other risks, whilst promoting inclusive societies, educational policies on values and, most important, an attitude of tolerance towards other cultures and religious.