In a White Paper, cultural stakeholders relaunch the “project” of cultural decentralization | EUROtoday

The twelfth version of the International Entertainment Biennials, which befell in Nantes on January 21 and 22, took on the air of a political discussion board. Placed below the signal of ” resistance “the occasion alerted to the state of affairs of a cultural world operating out of steam, and initiated, lower than two months earlier than the municipal elections and one yr earlier than the presidential election, a mirrored image on cultural decentralization.

Around forty associations of elected officers, native authorities, unions {and professional} organizations due to this fact got here collectively to draft a “White Paper on Cultural Decentralization”coordinated by the Observatory of Cultural Policies (OPC). Far from calling into query the decentralized mannequin, the organizations are calling for a strengthening of its functioning at the moment “weakened by the political and budgetary situation”in line with the signatories of the doc. Established within the Eighties, cultural decentralization is predicated on the switch of abilities from the State to native authorities, and on cross-financing between the totally different administrative entities.

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