Europe needs to remember how to “tell its own story.”
That was the loud and clear message from an impassioned, almost Churchillian speech by Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset this morning, as he gets set to sign a landmark international co-production treaty that its backers believe will signal an “era of new alliances.”
“I cannot help but think looking around this room that Europe has forgotten how to tell its own story,” Berset told a Series Mania audience as he opened the Lille Dialogues day. “What Europe would give in moments like this for a storytelling tool as powerful as yours, reminding people who we are, what we built and why it still matters.”
Berset’s message was loud and clear, European creatives need to be empowered via finance, looser regulation and sheer democratic power of will to keep telling stories about the continent in all
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