Posted: 28-07-2010
European cost-cutters target culture
The financial crisis and the need to escape crippling levels of public debt has prompted severe cutbacks in the arts throughout Europe.Cost-cutting politicians see culture as a soft target: somehow an unemployed singer does not have the same electoral impact as an unemployed car worker. As a result the knife is slicing to the very quick of European identity.
Weblink: www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/european-cost-cutters-target-culture/story-e6frg8n6-1225894248131
Source: The Australian

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