Policy

Maneuver 2025, planned reductions to ministries. Here are the cuts to culture and tourism

The 2025 budget maneuver, which was approved in the past few hours by the Quirinal Palace and deposited in the House, includes a serious slimming treatment for ministries: in fact, the bill introduced cuts of about 7.7 billion euros, distributed over...
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Francesco Spano, Giuli's chief of staff, resigns after only 9 days

Francesco Spano, the chief of staff of Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, resigned today from the post he was given only a few days ago. His tenure thus lasts little more than a week, nine days to be exact: he had been appointed only last Oct. 14. T...
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Who is Francesco Spano, minister Giuli's new chief of staff

Appointed today the new chief of cabinet of Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli: he is lawyer Francesco Spano, who thus goes to take over the role that until the day before yesterday had been Francesco Gilioli's, whose appointment was revoked by Giuli ...
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Culture Minister Alexander Giuli's guidelines in detail

What are the guidelines on which the new Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli intends to set his action? Last October 8, in front of the Culture Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Giuli expressed his vision in an hour-long speech: the attention o...
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G7 minister Giuli gives his Ukrainian counterpart Tochytskyi a medal

At the opening session of the G7 Culture G7, which began this morning in Naples at the Royal Palace, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli presented the "Two Years of Ukrainian Resistance" medal to Mykola Tochytskyi, Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Str...
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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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