EU To Seek Power For Limited Trade Concessions on Culture
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The European Union will press EU governments to permit negotiations over local-content media rules as part of a bargaining strategy for planned trade talks with the U.S., EU officials told reporters in Brussels.
In the discussions, the European side should defend the current rules -- known as the “cultural exception” -- while leaving open the possibility of limited concessions on future regulations in order to have more leverage on other issues such as public procurement, the officials said today. France has pressed for cultural-diversity rules to be completely excluded from the talks on a free-trade pact with the U.S.