Scandalous! State funds for culture 2010: Italy 0.21% of the state budget, France, England and Germany 2.21% of GDP
The Higher Council for Cultural Italian, desperate for the cuts, the public appeal to the President of Republic
Italy, for six years, devoted to the culture of a smaller share of the national budget, compared to the European Union. In comparison to France already are dwarfs, but every year the appropriations are cut, however - apparently a dwarf is still too high for certain mind-set necessary to become ants (which are also the honor not to talk).
But let's numbers, to express them on the Corriere della Sera of November 18, 2010 (page 46) is not a foo but Andrea Carandini, president of the Higher Council for Cultural Heritage (the organ responsible for the management and use fund budget of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage). Some other
cifretta addition to the already eloquent of the title? Let's see. The same source reveals that:
"Each year, funds for cultural decline. From 2004 to 2010 fell from an already low 0.34% to 0.21% of a state budget. "
And again:
"If we had started with European standards (2.25% of GDP in France, Germany and England), the progressive cuts, hard recently, would have been bearable. So it was not. Water is the throat. "
Later:
"The choice that the government is doing is to leave our Ministry in a position of being unable to act for the maintenance and restoration of cultural heritage. From € 335 million in 2004 grew to 148.5 million for the current year, with a cut equal to 55.73 percent. "
After a detailed list of other disasters (one of which is that the estimated expenditure for maintenance and repairs for 2011 is, as in previous years, of 446 million, but the appropriations amounted to only 102 million, then fail to € 344 million), the last but not least is a desperate public appeal , addressed by the entire High Council for Cultural Heritage to President of the Italian Republic, Napolitano. Here it is:
"Mr. President, our Ministry is no longer able to implement the Article 9 of the Constitution: take care of cultural heritage. Please be sure to convey this miserable situation with the Government and the Italian Parliament. "
Comments? Better not, because my tongue becomes forked and poisonous and could not guarantee to remain respectful of who is leading one of the best resources, also economic and spiritual ruin of Italy at the most total. I just mention the admirable Carandini one last time and hope you do not talk to empty
"Minister Tremonti [the current Minister of Economy, ed ] argued that culture can not eat. Yet men must feel, as well as the stomach, the brain. If the water is key to the body, the culture is key to the mind (the comparison is by Claudio Abbado), unless you want to leave emotion and reason to lust for power, envy of money, sexual consumerism, a junk entertainment. "
Here Habet audiendi Aures, audiat (and if he listens, everyone should do something to support the appeal of Carandini: for example, disclosed or translated into English and publish this article in order to be able to listen to other EU citizens).
Sergio Sozi (sergio.sozi @ yahoo.it)
source: Renzo Montagnoli
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