CIt's endless. We must repeat again and again to regional and national elected officials the importance and necessity of our cultural and associative fabric, the jobs it creates, the economic activity it generates. Justify, justify ourselves, justify ourselves…
Tell again and again our common history, and I would even say the history of humanity, because, since the dawn of humanity, we have always been keen to protect artists so that they paint, write, sing, dance for us , play and replay the world as it is, as it could be or even as it was.
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What the Neanderthals and their cousins understood, Christelle Morançais, the president of the regional council of Pays de la Loire, member of Edouard Philippe's Horizons party, clearly does not understand it or, worse, pretends not to understand it.
This person insinuates with a populist impulse that Donald Trump would not shy away from that the world of culture is only a niche of spoiled people who it is high time to confront with reality, so that, according to their words, they can reinvent themselves.
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While the previous government suggested a saving of 40 million euros and, with her finger on the seam of her pants, she replies that she will increase it to 82 million by 2025 and 100 by 2028.. Yes, 100 million euros! That is to say a direct cut of 73% of the region's budget devoted to culture, 75% of that reserved for sport and 90% of that for gender equality.
For the common good
Dear Madam, culture is an economically promising sector for a territory, but, and I recognize that this is complicated for you, the cultural ecosystem does not display its results and its economic prospects, all of this is intertwined and diluted in the activity of the country and, to realize this, it is true, it is necessary to work on the subject a minimum. We have no CAC 40, no big bosses close to power, no secure international summits, no private jets, no TV channel under orders… But I can assure you that it works, and it works hard for the common good.
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