Twenty years after the adoption of the Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Mário Vieira de Carvalho argues that the fundamental values championed by this international legal instrument seem to have disappeared both from the discourse and from the actions of the entities that initially supported them.
The article, presented as the author's opinion, questions the real commitment of European institutions to the principles they helped enshrine in the Convention adopted by UNESCO.
Vieira de Carvalho warns of an apparent contradiction between what was initially championed and the current reality of European cultural policy.
The author proposes that Europe needs truth and reconciliation processes, suggesting that there is a rupture between the commitments made in the past and contemporary political practice in the field of culture.
