A hard hitting editorial from the Guardian today comments "One of the great ambassadors for this kind of human-level link has been the European Union Youth Orchestra, an ensemble drawing its players from EU nations and led by the greatest conductors. In cutting off its core funding, as it has done recently, the EU has shot itself in the foot: the orchestra is a powerful symbol of a pan-European cultural tradition. But it is a reminder that links need to be burnished. It is to be hoped the European culture and education ministers meeting this week will safeguard the orchestra’s long-term future".
And Matthew Holehouse, Brussels Correspondent of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, and a leading EU affairs commentator, tweeted: "Juncker wants to save the European Union Youth Orchestra and has told his budget staff to find "solutions" by tomorrow".
This campaign is clearly NOT going away …