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 three years, that will affect the ministries. The cuts were introduced for spending review reasons, as stated in Article 119 of the bill: the aim is to achieve the programmatic public finance targets of the Medium-Term Budget Structural Plan 2025-2029, with the result that the accrual and cash allocations of the various ministries are reduced for the next three years.

The reductions can also be reshuffled in accrual and cash terms between different programs within the respective expenditure estimates should the relevant ministers propose it. Let’s see what cuts to culture and tourism are included in the maneuver.

As far as the Ministry of Culture is concerned, the cuts are 147 million for 2025, 178 for 2026, and 204 for 2027, against a total budget of around 3.5 billion euros. The bulk is concentrated on expenditures for the protection of cultural heritage, namely program 1.9 of the ministry (“Survey financial needs and elaboration of annual and three-year programs for the preservation, promotion and dissemination of cultural heritage and activities at the territorial level and support and assistance on their implementation. Analysis and accounting control of the offices endowed with autonomy, as well as the entities supervised by the various Centers of Administrative Responsibility of the Ministry. Financial interventions in favor of the owner, possessor, or holder of the cultural property. Amortization of loans for the protection of cultural heritage”). For this area, 100 million cut in 2025, 139 in 2026, and 167 in 2027, compared with a program that, in the 2024 estimates, included accrued allocations of about 680 million euros.

Smaller cuts, on the other hand, to support for the performing arts (1.7, 1.9, and 1.8 million euros over the next three years, against accrual allocations for 2024 of 474 million euros), to cultural heritage supervision, prevention, and repression (127 thousand euros for all three years, allocations of 9 million), the protection of archaeological heritage (528 thousand euros in 2025 and 2026, 563 thousand in 2027, allocations of 68 million), the protection and enhancement of archival heritage (7.4 million euros in 2025 and 2,4 in 2026 and 2027, endowments of 162 million), to the protection and enhancement of library assets and the promotion of books (6.4, 6.5 and 6.3 million, endowments of 98 million), to the protection of fine arts and the enhancement of the landscape (12,8 in 2025 and 12.5 million in 2026, endowments of 147 million), to the enhancement of cultural heritage and coordination of the museum system (8.1 in 2025 and 6.6 million in 2026 and 2027, endowments of 436 million), to the protection and promotion ofcontemporary art and architecture (1.5 million, allocations of 34 million), to the support, enhancement and protection of the cinema and audiovisual sector (1.2, 1.3 million and 324 thousand, allocations of 550 million), to cultural heritage security and emergency interventions (3 million, allocations of 11 million), and to the promotion of national cultural heritage abroad (58 thousand, 41 thousand and 40 thousand). Also planned are cuts of 3.5 million in 2025, 1.5 in 2026 and 1.5 in 2027 to the institutional services of the Ministry of Culture.

As for the Ministry of Tourism, the cuts are 69 million for 2025, 46 for 2026, and 40 for 2027. Almost all the cuts concern the promotion of tourism supply: for this program, which has allocations of about 90 million euros, Italian tourism will have to do without 68 million in 2025, 45 in 2026 and 39 in 2027. As for the other items, cuts to the coordination and direction of tourism policies (75 thousand euros in 2025 and 2026, 51 thousand in 2027), supervision and regulation of tourism professions (335 thousand in 2025, 339 thousand in 2026 and 2027), and computerization, digitalization, and statistical analysis of the tourism sector (469 thousand euros in 2025 and 2026, 450 thousand in 2027).

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

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