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Europe has always expressed its values through infrastructure. Roman roads were not merely paths of stone; they were instruments of order and reach. Railways shaped the industrial nation-state. Broadcasting networks created mass culture and democratic publics. Infrastructure, in other words, has never been neutral. It is where political intent quietly hardens into daily reality.
For many, the European AI Act is a dense legal document — a framework of obligations, risk categories and compliance mechanisms designed to bring order to a rapidly evolving technological field. But this reading misses a deeper and more consequential layer. What if the AI Act is not merely a regulatory instrument, but a cultural statement?
For decades, European power was defined through markets, regulation and industrial capacity. Culture existed alongside that project — respected, supported, but rarely treated as strategic. That distinction has collapsed. In an age of geopolitical tension, platform dominance and accelerating artificial intelligence, culture and media have become infrastructure. They shape trust, legitimacy and collective orientation. Creative Europe sits precisely at that intersection, even if it is seldom described in those terms.
