untitled design

L. Mendoni-Budget: Culture is a strategic development resource

With system, perseverance and method, we are implementing our commitments and even in times of irregularity, stressed in her speech on the Budget, the Minister of Culture & Sports, Lina Mendoni. According to the Minister, Culture is the fourth pillar of sustainable development, “it is a strategic development resource”, noting that projects of smaller or larger scale are being carried out throughout the country, utilizing all available financial tools.

At the Ministry of Culture, we try with our policies, actions and projects, to contribute more and more to the growth of GDP, and to achieve the goal of self-financing of Culture, which we had set from the beginning. Our main concern is to implement actions that are realistic, developmental, pro-investment, reformist, flexible and socially just, said Mrs. Mendoni.

He noted that in the budget debate, economic performance, GDP growth and the new announcements of the financial staff are of primary interest, however, it has not yet been realized that the Culture sector is closely linked to the economic aspects as well as to the the direct or indirect development added value it can give to the national economy. “Culture can, by pursuing specific public policies, influence key economic indicators, and make a decisive contribution to GDP growth,” he said.

In fact, responding to an intervention by the parliamentary representative of SYRIZA-PS Euclides Tsakalotou, that “Mr. Skylakakis would wait for Mr. Skylakakis to say about the contribution of Culture to the economy”, Ms. Mendoni said that her reports are made in the context of the Budget discussion. and “if this had become conscious, the SYRIZA government would not have pursued its destructive policies, would have shown empathy, would have proceeded with projects from the NSRF and would have claimed development funds”.

In Mr. Tsakalotos’ criticism that the government did not support the people of Culture in the midst of a pandemic, Ms. Mendoni said that the Mitsotakis government included in the measures all the professionals in the field, with funds amounting to over 500 million euros, while securing another 200 million for the creative and cultural sector, from the Development Fund, to correct pathogens, “which you put under the rug” and which “we solve”.

For his part, the SYRIZA MP had said that Lina Mendoni was a good transfer from the Center Left to the Mitsotakis government, because she is the minister who knows the value of all things and the value of no one.

Source: AMPE

.

Source From: Capital

You may also like

Get the latest

Stay Informed: Get the Latest Updates and Insights

 

Most popular