Use of television as a medium for securing support among the general public for the European idea
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- This Recommendation
was adopted by the Assembly at its twenty-second Sitting, on 24th
September, 1953 (see Doc.
211, Report of the Committee on Cultural and Scientific
Questions).
- Thesaurus
The Assembly,
Considering the importance of T. V. as an international means
of creating that common body of European opinion upon which the
political structure of Europe must ultimately depend ;
Taking note of the findings of the Committee on Cultural and
Scientific Questions based on the advice of a working party of experts
convened by the Secretary-General at the request of the Committee ;
Taking note that important international T. V. developments
which are taking place at the technical level under the auspices
of the European Broadcasting Union and other bodies are, nevertheless,
being hampered by difficulties susceptible of solution by international
political agreement,
Recommends to the Committee of Ministers :
a to transmit to Member Governments
the suggestions of the Committee on Cultural and Scientific Questions
with regard to the reduction of costs in international transmission,
and to the removal of legal and other obstacles to the production
and exchange of programme material ;
b to take all steps within its power to assist the rapid
completion of the European T. V. network which is at present being
built up by the T. V. industry ; and
c to take steps to arrive at a European Convention on copyright
such as might facilitate the exchange of programme material ;
d to request Member Governments to encourage, where appropriate,
the production by national T. V. systems of programmes designed
to make better known the cultural, economic and political life of
other European peoples and, in a general way, to foster the European
idea.
