“If the region withdraws, I don’t see how to continue” – Libération

Eager to go further than the government's demands for savings, the president of the region, Christelle Morançais, wants severe cuts. The cultural sector is alarmed by measures that would destroy its activity.

“Make poetry profitable?” Magali Brazil still can't believe it. Friday, November 15, the director of the House of Poetry in Nantes was one of the first to receive the “phone call” from the region’s technical services. They announced to him the end of the subsidy granted to his structure, from next year. A cut of 58,000 euros, or 20% of its operating budget. Without consideration for the programming already printed, the authors contacted, the expansion project planned for three years now. “We are asked to reinvent a model that is impossible to reinvent, she sighs. Especially given the deadline: 2025 is tomorrow.”

For a week, a wave of anxiety and bad news has shaken the Loire cultural community, while the region is considering withdrawing its financial support. The community intends to focus on its mandatory skills. Above all, as a good student of the majority, she promises to go further than the government's demands. If the State plans a saving of 40 million euros for it, Christelle Morançais, the president of the regional council