ABSTRACT
EUCLID represents a new generation of actors in the cultural policy and research field: profit-making consulting groups. With an emphasis on information delivery through the new information technologies, EUCLID has emerged as a competitor to the more traditional research and information groups, many of which grew out of the public sector and still retain more of a public-service ethos. The event that led to restructuring EUCLID into a consulting organization more concerned with the arts and culture at the European level was the designation of Merseyside to receive special structural funds from the European Union. EUCLID has three permanent staff members, two in Liverpool and one who staffs both the Cardiff and Brussels offices. EUCLID also departs from earlier such firms in that it has focused its attention much more on the European Union than on the Council of Europe and, at least for the moment, seems to have a relative advantage in this regard.
