Memo: European Commissioner for Trade Karel De Gucht on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement: The cultural exception is not up for negotiation!

Europe will not put its cultural exception at risk through trade negotiations. Nothing in the free trade agreement with the United States will harm - or even have the potential to harm – Europe's cultural diversity. The negotiations will duly take into account the different sectoral sensitivities of the European Union. The audiovisual sector has a clear place among these sensitive sectors.