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Freedom of expression, democracy and a diverse Europe

10th June 2019

European Writers’ Council: Authors’ Rights are fundamental for freedom of expression, democracy and a diverse Europe

 


The new elected Board of the European Writers’ Council (EWC) sets his agenda: strengthen the moral and economic rights of authors and keeping the diversity of literature alive, the most powerful
 and independent instrument of democracy

Nina George, international bestselling novelist from Germany, has been elected as President of the EWC at its general assembly in Riga, Lativa. Vice-President is Daniel Cristea-Enache (Romania), Director of Communications at the Writers’ Union of Romania and Associate Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at University of Bucharest. The new elected Board includes Poet Ružica Cindori, Secretary-General of the Croatian Writers’ Association, Non-fiction-writer Markku Löytönen, Professor of human geography at the University of Helsinki (Finland), and Alena Makouskaya, Director of Civil society organization “Homeland” and member of the Secretariat of the Union of the Belarusian Writers.

Representing professional writers and translators from 28 countries and 38 associations, the EWC defends and encourages the interests of 150,000 authors in the book and fiction industry, writing in 31 languages.

The new EWC Boards sets his agenda on three major tasks:

  • Defending the freedom of expression, to stand for the values of a democratic, pluralistic and diverse Europe
  • Protecting the authors’s moral and economic rights in the digital era
  • Promoting the values of Literature, to transfer knowledge, independent opinions and cultural narratives not only to the next generations

Integer societys need diverse culture and protected author’s rights
«The digital era is not only a challenge for protecting authors rights and empowering the voice of writers and translators in the level playing field», says Nina George, President of the European Writers’ Council, on the upcoming challenges for the new EWC Board. «Digitization, biotechnology, AI and robotics have also changed the communication, the cultural consumption, the common views on legal issues like ownership and responsibility. The post-factual-era and politic-hacks have their impact on the upturn in the right-wing parties throughout the Union. In order to cope with these developments, which bring about technological, political, legal, ethical and economic upheavals, Europe needs visions and concepts for an inclusive and integer society. The EWC could be the ideal think tank.»

Vice-President Daniel Cristea-Enache confirms the meaning of EWC: «The European Writers’ Council stands for a united Europe, for the ideal of diversity, for the independent literature, as well as for a wide range of culture and art. EWC, a federation which brings together the individualists, also represents individualism within a pluralist community. As it is widely acknowledged, each writer creates a personal, unique fictional world. Therefore, let us share the large-scale literary system of meaning and value, of forms and significance. Above all, we will endeavour to support and defend the writers’ and translators’ rights.»

Defending the food chain of literature – not only in the European Union
»The »information food chain« starting with those producing and providing – be it literature, articles, emedia, or something else – must be kept alive and flourishing«, finish non-fiction writer Markku Löytönen points it out clearly. »The starting point i.e. the author is often the weakist element in this chain and should be protected through legislation and international agreements. If authors are left alone with no proper compensation, soon there will be no food chain to provide readers, teachers, students, or decision makers. If you think that facts and information are expensive, try ignorance!«

Poet Ružica Cindori from Croatia sees the upcoming chances also in collaboration: »European Writers’ Council raise the public awareness on the importance of the respect for copyright and the problems within the book chain that affect not only writers but also publishers, booksellers, translators”, she said. »It is my belief that these problems should be solved foremost at the European level and in European institutions. In this context the voice of the EWC is of crucial importance. It is also my opinion that we should extend our help to the writers from countries that are still not members of the EU with the aim of respecting their authors’ rights and increasing the creative freedoms. Together we are stronger!«

Creative freedoms is based on freedom of expression
Alena Makouskaya, Director of Civil society organization »Homeland« from Belarus stresses the importance of freedom of expression: “The purposes the European Writers Council pursues in its activity are very important to me, among which the most significant one is the protection of freedom of expression. There are many cultural organizations in Europe that are faced with censorship, limitations and violations of the rights of its members. Especially actual it is for the countries of Eastern Europe. I hope that EWC maintain active communication with democratic cultural organizations of this region as they are very important component of the development of the region and its safety. I would like very much the European Writers Council to increase its potential in this direction.“

For more information / contact
Myriam Diocaretz
Secretary-General

Brussels, 10. June 2019

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