The 2025 draft budget of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation is drawn up as tight as possible, but it provides for a substantial improvement in aid to the literary and book sector.
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Journalist at the Culture department
By Alain LallemandPublished on 11/17/2024 at 2:48 p.m.
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IThere will be no clear cut: tabled this Thursday in parliament, the 2025 draft budget for culture (excluding audiovisual and media) is up 2%, bringing it from 355.3 to 362.6 million euros. Simple mechanical effect of indexing? Not at all: the trajectory set by the Minister of Budget and Culture, Elisabeth Degryse (Les Engagés), is both more austere and broader, because each of the budget articles has visibly been re-examined.
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