Brussels, 22/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Culture Council, which is to meet on Tuesday 26 September, chaired by French Minister Catherine Tasca, will exclusively be devoted to the programme of the aid to the audiovisual industry, Media Plus, which should take over from the current Media II programme in January 2001. The essential part of the debate, with as goal to convince the most reluctant government (that of the Netherlands), will be of a budgetary nature, to find a solution acceptable to the European Parliament. The French Presidency hopes to reach a political agreement on a global sum of 400 million euro over five years (amount proposed by the European Commission) but recognises the "difficulty of the enterprise". In case of deadlock, it has not been ruled out that the subject could be raised by the Heads of State of Government of the EU in Biarritz, mid-October, before the next session of the Culture Council, on 13 November.