European Coalitions for Cultural Diversity is an umbrella organisation for national coalitions of the same name representing the interests and ideas of local cultural actors/associations in Europe regarding the UNESCO Convention. There are currently 33 national Coalitions for Cultural Diversity around the world; 9 inEurope. They are working to ensure that the issue of cultural diversity finds it way into all the internal policy areas of the EU with specific attention to be placed on a revision of the Television without Frontiers Directive; increased budgetary allocations to EU culture and media programmes (2007-2013) taking issues of cultural diversity into consideration; to ensure that cultural and audiovisual services, collective management organisations of intellectual property rights and cultural workers (e.g. performing artists, technicians etc) are excluded from the EU Directive on Services as well as from international trade agreements.