CCI Policymaking at the EU Level

The chapter offers an overview of European Union (EU) cultural and creative industries (CCI) policy under four decades, describing the development of an articulated culture programme in the 1990s to the increasingly elaborate CCI policy of the 2000s and 2010, where arguments for CCI are put forward in particular to develop EU economies. The chapter indicates key policy documents and the substantial increase in budgets when culture is linked to business development policy in the EU. The chapter offers a generalised but graspable snapshot of the development of policy related to CCI as a comparative basis for the study of CCI policymaking in Sweden at the national and subnational levels by describing the main objectives and instruments of EU CCI policy over time. The chapter is mainly descriptive with reference to key documents, whereas an analysis using the policy regime framework is offered in Chap. 6 .