Minister of Culture and Information Ivan Tasovac and European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou signed on June 19 in Brussels an agreement on Serbia’s participation in the "Creative Europe" programme. Tasovac underlined that Serbia is the first candidate country for membership in the EU to take part in "Creative Europe", whose total budget amoun ts to €1.46 billion. He said that from this day, Serbia is formally a member of Creative Europe and not just symbolically. Serbian Minister said that the Ministry of Culture and Information has already set up the „Creative Europe“ desk, which will organise it’s first international conference by the end of this month, with participation of experts from more than 10 European countries. European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth Androulla Vassiliou, who signed the agreement on behalf of the EC, said that she is satisfied with the fact that the signing of the agreement would make it possible for Serbia to use the benefits of the programme. Vassiliou stressed that Serbia is a country with a number of museums, theatres, recognised music festivals and literary tradition dating back to the 11th century. With its culture of everyday life, extraordinary Old Roman and Early Byzantine architectural heritage which is included in the UNESCO list of world monuments of culture, Serbia enriches the joint European cultural space.