EU Culture Chief Pledges to ‘Protect Artistic Freedom’ in Landmark Meeting with the European Theatre Convention and Deutsches Theater Berlin
EU Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, Glenn Micallef, met with the European Theatre Convention (ETC), the largest network of publicly funded theatres in Europe, and the Deutsches Theater Berlin for a behind-the-scenes tour during his official visit to Berlin on Monday 26 May 2025.
The European Theatre Convention, Europe's largest network of public theatres, met with EU Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, Glenn Micallef, at the Deutsches Theater Berlin for wide-ranging discussion about the important role and impact of the European theatre sector, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the historic Deutsches Theater.
Commissioner Micallef met with Heidi Wiley, ETC Executive Director; Iris Laufenberg, Artistic Director of Deutsches Theater Berlin and ETC Vice-President; Cláudia Belchior, ETC President and Executive General Coordinator of Centro Cultural de Belém (Portugal); Tom Leick-Burns, ETC Secretary and Artistic Director of Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg); and Marina Maleni, ETC Board Member and Theatre Development Officer at Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC), reflecting the broad international scope of the theatre sector.
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