Franceschini: "I explained to the government that the crisis in tourism, culture and entertainment is serious"

Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini has set up the permanent table for the performing arts, cinema and audiovisual sector. “I would like your work,” the minister said, speaking to workers in the sector, “to be aimed in two directions: the first, the most urgent, is to continue to identify the demergency measures needed to get through the crisis, both on the institutional and labor sides. In addition, we need to think about the aftermath. We are discussing the new law on the performing arts, as well as the allocation of the new resources provided by the budget law: the 240 million more for the cinema fund, which makes it possible to make permanent the increase to 40 percent of the tax credit rate, and the 50 million more for the FUS, which should be directed to broaden the perimeter of state support to those realities that have never enjoyed it.”

“We have gone through both the first and second phases of the emergency,” said the minister, “with a huge amount of work and dozens of decrees approved, thanks to the commitment of the ministry and thanks to the collaboration of the many organizations and associations now gathered in this permanent table. As your representative in the government, I have tried as much as possible to explain that both tourism and culture and entertainment have been hit very hard not only at the time of closures, but also at the time of reopenings.”

"The amount of economic resources that have arrived with both general and special aid is significant," Franceschini stressed, "both in relation to what has happened in other countries and compared to other sectors. Now that the crisis is getting longer, more needs to be done. If the emergency measures continue, we need to extend aid, and we are working on this in the new Ristori Decree. Inside this scheme, we were first and foremost concerned about the workers, as well as the companies and associations involved. This has allowed us to see how many workers in this sector do not have a clear and defined framework. In addition to employees who have had access to the layoff fund, for the first time in history, those who have applied for special benefits number about 80,000. And so we could realize the actual size of this phenomenon. This is also why the entertainment law will be important, to try to make more protections for workers stable."

Franceschini: "I explained to the government that the crisis in tourism, culture and entertainment is serious"

Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.