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Press release | The 2025 European Authors Day ends with a record number of 6573 events in 34 Creative Europe countries

From Sweden and Finland to Tunisia and Turkey, from Ukraine and Latvia to Portugal and Italy – an amazingly international celebration of human creativity and reading, live and for real, gathered (…)

Press release | Books and other printed products excluded from EU Deforestation Regulation

Brussels, 17 December 2025
On 17 December, the final act of the European Union Deforestation Regulation was played in the Strasbourg plenary session of the European Parliament. Members of the EP (…)

Press release | FEP among the founding organisations of Public Lending Right International (PLRI)

Geneva, Switzerland, Monday 8 December 2025
On 2 December, Public Lending Right International (PLRI) was established as an international association to bring together lending rights stakeholders (…)

Press release | FEP welcomes the political agreement that excludes books from the scope of the EU Deforestation Regulation

The Council of the EU and the European Parliament recognised the need to prevent unjustified disruption for the book sector

Brussels, 5 December 2025
FEP welcomes the Council’s and the European Parliament’s representatives for reaching yesterday a provisional political agreement on a targeted revision of the EU (…)

Press Release | FEP welcomes the result of the vote on the EUDR in the EP plenary

The legislators recognised the disproportionateness of the inclusion of books in the scope of the Regulation

Brussels, 26 November 2025
FEP welcomes the adoption by the European Parliament of the amendment removing all printed products (books, newspapers and magazines) from the scope of the (…)

The European Authors Day 2025 celebrations under the motto Read. For Real kick off and will continue across Europe until 12 December

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From 11 November, everyone – schools, libraries, nurseries, bookshops, publishers, cultural centres, local authorities, companies, NGOs, and individuals – is invited to join the shared celebration (…)

Presentation "European Book Market Statistics 2024-25" at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) presented the European Book Market Statistics 2024–25 on 15 October during the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse), one of the most important (…)

FEP and 29 other European cultural networks and organisations urge the Council of the EU to withdraw proposed cuts to Creative Europe

The Federation of European Publishers, with 29 other European cultural networks and organisations, joins Culture Action Europe and urges the Council of the European Union to reverse the proposed (…)

FEP events at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

The Federation of European Publishers will participate in the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2025 with a full schedule of events. Join us for our traditional Rendez-Vous on Thursday, 16 October at (…)

Read. For Real! The organisers of the European Authors Day send out an open invitation to celebrate the joy of reading

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“Be the change you want to see in the world” – this is the call for everyone to join in a shared celebration of reading and human creativity. The special multilingual website www.readforreal.eu is (…)