Policy

Minister Sangiuliano tries to abolish cancel culture by decree

It is a kind of modern form of damnatio memoriae: cancel culture is that particular phenomenon, which arose in the late 2010s, whereby there is a tendency to ostracize, boycott, or avoid subjects who have said or done something deemed unacceptable. ...
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Maneuver 2024 approved. Here are all the measures for culture in the Budget Law

With 200 votes in favor, 112 against and 3 abstentions, the House gave the final green light to the Budget Law 2024 late this afternoon. The maneuver had already been approved by the Senate last Friday, Dec. 22 ("State budget for the financial year 2...
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Schmidt appointed to Capodimonte, but will he run for mayor of Florence? It's already a controversy

Not even two days have passed since his appointment as director of the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, and for Eike Schmidt it is already controversy. What he had said in an interview on Windows onArt, and then reiterated in the days that ...
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Vittorio Sgarbi defends himself against accusations: No conflict of interest. Here's why

No conflict of interest between the position of undersecretary and the many activities (conferences, exhibitions meetings) held around Italy. Undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi defends himself against the accusations of Il Fatto Quotidiano after the arti...
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Sangiuliano tough on Sgarbi: I didn't want him, I find myself curbing his troubles

The interview you don't expect: minister Gennaro Sangiuliano openly against undersecretary Vittorio Sgarbi, with very harsh statements to Fatto Quotidiano. It all starts from the article, signed by Thomas Mackinson, that the daily newspaper edited by...
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Why is the right wing attacking the director of the Egyptian Museum? For something from 7 years ago

"Christian Greco, director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, make a gesture of dignity and resign. We will do everything we can to oust him, and we ask Culture Minister Sangiuliano to oust him if he does not resign. "These are the words of Andrea Crip...
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Silvio Berlusconi has died. Reactions from the world of culture

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi passed away in Milan at the age of 86. Below are the first reactions from the world of culture. Gennaro Sangiuliano, Minister of Culture A great Italian has passed away, who with his spirit of enterprise, inve...
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Cultural heritage photo fees, associations appeal to minister

Calls are mounting for Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano to revise Ministerial Decree 161 of April 11, by which the guidelines for determining the minimum amounts of fees and charges for the concession of use of assets in consignment to state cult...
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Budget Law 2023 approved. Here are the measures for culture

With 107 votes in favor, 69 against and one abstention, today, Thursday, Dec. 29, the Senate finally approved the Budget Bill 2023 (A.S. 442), or the financial maneuver for the year 2023, which thus officially becomes law, after the upper chamber ren...
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Repeal of 18-year-old bonus, trade associations oppose it

Culture trade associations are beginning to take a stand on therepeal of 18app, the culture bonus for 18-year-olds, and at the moment all of the intervening unions are siding against theamendment by Federico Mollicone (Fratelli d'Italia), Rossano Sas...
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Majority wants to eliminate 18app, the 18-year-old culture bonus: amendment in maneuver

A maxi amendment to the budget bill to eliminate the culture bonus for 18-year-olds, the one that guarantees 500 euros every year to young people who turn 18, and which can be used to buy books, museum and concert tickets, theater subscriptions, musi...
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What Minister Sangiuliano will do: the programmatic lines of his government

What will Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano do at the start of his term? The incumbent of the Roman College laid out his programmatic lines at a hearing before the Culture Committees of the House and Senate on Thursday. An hour and a half of inter...
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A 30-year-old appointed adviser to Minister Sangiuliano: he is Francesco Giubilei

A 30-year-old becomes an adviser to Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano. He is Francesco Giubilei, from Romagna, born in 1992, an editor and a constant presence, right-wing share, of TV talk shows. By decree on Nov. 11, Francesco Giubilei became adv...
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Draft budget law. Culture absent for now, measures for tourism

The draft of the 2023 budget law has been circulating for several hours: it is the first economic maneuver of the Meloni government. For the time being, the draft does not include measures for culture: an absence that has raised opposition reactions,...
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Culture, here are the three undersecretaries of the Meloni government: Sgarbi, Borgonzoni and Mazzi

The first Council of Ministers of the Meloni government has just concluded in which the list of undersecretaries was also launched. As many as three undersecretaries go to culture, a number shared only with the Ministry of the Interior and the Minist...
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Sangiuliano: we must preserve heritage but also make it an economic driver

First engagements for Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, who made some statements to Rai about his next steps, and the value his ministry will place on culture. Sangiuliano, after visiting the Synagogue and the Jewish Museum in Rome this morning, ...
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