Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Cuts of Culture: Critical Minister Bondi

May 30th, 2010 | by Joseph C. |

UPDATE - Today, 31 May, President of the Republic has signed the decree that contains the budget package. The list of the 232 agencies, foundations and cultural institutions that they would lose the state contribution has been eliminated from the final document. Is still an overall reduction in expenditure on this sector. Bondi will be the Minister to decide where to cut.

The budget of the Government, which these days is provoking heated discussions, touches heavily on the culture. Will, in fact, 232 bodies and foundations that will no longer receive state funds. At the risk therefore the survival of cultural institutions, without the necessary financial support, could be forced to close.

They end up in the list of financial maneuver the Milan Triennale and the Quadrennial of Rome, the Italian Geographic Society and foundations Adriano Olivetti in Rome and Milan as Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the Arena di Verona Foundation and Festival of Two Worlds Spoleto, the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome, the foundations Gioacchino Rossini in Pesaro, Giorgio Cini in Venice and the Gramsci Institute in Rome.

A clean cut, the general, indiscriminate and disproportionate use without any real assessment of the utility or the history of the institution without any indication of who will end the workers involved in these institutions.

The Minister Sandro Bondi said that this act of indiscriminate cutting has discredited the role of the ministry, he added: "I think that many agencies need to be suppressed, however, there are organizations and institutions, I cite the experimental center of cinematography, the Vittoriale which can not be considered unnecessary bodies. Some cuts are necessary but can not be indiscriminate. "

Heavy the price he will pay the archaeological sector. In the list, in fact, there are also institutions that always play a role in research and study of history and archeology. So we join the words of the President of the Confederation of Italian archaeologists Giorgia Leoni:

"We can not tacitly accept that some of the most prestigious institutions archaeological lose the irreplaceable contribution that derives from their state funding and are therefore intended to idle if not the definitive closure. The list includes institutions, including the Italian Archaeological School of Athens, the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Early History, the Institute of Roman Studies, the International Institute of Ligurian Studies, National Institute of Archeology and Art History, through their research that allowed Italy to play a leading role in the knowledge of the archaeological heritage of our country and the entire Mediterranean basin, often playing a key role in diplomatic vehicles. "

As always, comments are open, we want to hear your opinion also.

Sources: Repubblica.it , IlMessaggero.it

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