budgetary tightening within the Pays de la Loire area | EUROtoday

By saying, on October 17, a financial savings plan of 100 million euros on the 2025 price range, the president (Horizons) of the regional council took everybody abruptly. Where Michel Barnier’s authorities imposes a drain of 40 million on it within the title of restoring public accounts, Christelle Morançais promised “to go and get some” 60 extra subsequent 12 months. “It is an unprecedented, important, demanding effort, but it is an essential and salutary effort”she defined in the course of the budgetary orientation debate.

As cultural associations are knowledgeable of the price range cuts to which they are going to be topic by the regional council, anger rises and spreads behind the scenes. Among the actors affected, the road competition Le Chaînonmissant, which takes place in Laval and Changé (Mayenne), will lose 161,000 euros in 2024.

Ditto for the La Folle Journee music competition in Nantes, which should hand over its subsidy of 180,000 euros. In Angers, the Premiers Plans movie competition was lower by 104,500 euros and, in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (Maine-et-Loire), Julien Gracq’s home, remodeled right into a writers’ residence, trembles on its foundations. In 2025, regional support can be halved, and dangers disappearing utterly in 2026.

“So culture would be an untouchable monopoly? »

The CGT union of visual artists in Pays de la Loire cites reductions of up to 90%. According to cultural actors, who met under the windows of the regional council in Nantes, Monday November 25, live performance alone accounts for more than 150,000 jobs in the Pays de la Loire.

And it is not the words of Christelle Morançais on the social network X, Tuesday November 12, which will appease their anger. “So culture would be an untouchable monopoly? »she responds to the criticisms aimed at her, pointing out “very politicized associations which live on public money”. And to marvel, on the identical social community: “How sustainable is a system which, to exist, is so depending on public cash? And much more so when this public cash not exists? A system which we word, as well as, is, regardless of the subsidies it advantages from, in everlasting disaster! »

A member of Horizons since February 2024, Sarthoise Christelle Morançais, 49, grew to become president of the Pays de la Loire regional council in 2017, when Vendéen Bruno Retailleau most popular the Senate. The now Minister of the Interior had chosen to entrust the reins of the area to this quasi-novice, now free of her mentor.

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