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Covid-19: the European cultural sector lost 31% of its turnover

2021-01-26T15:28:30.816Z


According to an EY report, “live entertainment, which lost 90% of its turnover between 2019 and 2020, and music (76%) are the most affected”. And the picture that emerges for 2021 is just as bleak.


Help culture, a European

"heavyweight" in the economy

, in order to allow a global recovery.

That's what a study published Tuesday by EY, one of the world's largest financial audit firms, recommends.

But time is running out.

Affected by the effects of the health crisis, the cultural sector would have lost, in 2020 in Europe,

"about 31% of its turnover"

.

Read also: Vincent Montagne: "Culture will play a major role in overcoming the crisis"

The figures presented by the study undermine certain received ideas around a sector considered to be non-essential.

"The cultural economy is a powerful lever for exports and influence for the European Union, exports of cultural goods representing more than 28.1 billion euros in 2017"

, we can read.

Jean-Noël Tronc, director general of the Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in France and President of the European Group of Societies of Authors and Composers, commissioned the report.

Contacted by AFP, he explains:

“The cultural and creative industries

[ICC]

must be taken into account in an economic strategy for global recovery.

Reinvesting in cultural industries is part of the solution. ”

The study shows, in particular, that the cultural and creative industries were, before the pandemic,

"among the heavyweights of the European Union economy"

.

With revenues

"estimated at 643 billion euros and an added value generated of 253 billion euros in 2019, CCIs thus represented 4.4% of the EU's GDP in terms of turnover"

.

That is to say

"an economic contribution greater than that of telecommunications, high technology, the pharmaceutical industry or the automobile industry"

.

Read also: In Belgium, RTBF supports the cultural industry

"Annus horribilis bis"

If

"air transport is the most suffering sector, the CCIs have experienced losses in turnover greater than those suffered by other key sectors of the European economy such as tourism and the automobile"

, insists the EY study.

“Live entertainment

[which lost 90% of its turnover between 2019 and 2020]

and music

[76%]

are the most affected”

.

And the picture that emerges for 2021 is just as bleak.

"The economic consequences for culture will extend into 2021 with some certainty"

, indicates Marc Lhermitte, the author of the report.

Jean-Noël Tronc fears, for 2021, an

“annus horribilis bis”

:

The cancellation of Glastonbury [prestigious contemporary music festival in England]

is a first extremely worrying signal.

There is a risk of domino effect since this festival allows to articulate the European tours of international artists.

Many cultural actors will not recover from a second blank year ”

.

Read also: Hellfest "begs" Roselyne Bachelot "to act quickly" to organize her festival

"Retro schedule"

At the head of a delegation including artists like Jean-Michel Jarre, Mr. Tronc will meet by videoconference with European commissioners, including Mariya Gabriel and Thierry Breton, in order to find avenues of work.

“I will ask the European Commissioners to get involved in a strategy of cultural deconfinement for the Union, cultural places being less contaminating than some of those which have remained open.

We need a retroplanning.

In March the festivals must be confirmed ”

.

For the director general of Sacem, the European Union must also take on the role of regulator to

"not let the platforms impose a fixed remuneration on creators"

.

“Regarding the taxation of platforms for the benefit of the world of culture, countries alone cannot make this kind of decision without the support of Europe,” he adds.

And Marc Lhermitte to add:

"If we take the European recovery plan - a large package of 750 billion euros - it seems to me that allocating 2% of this fund to the CCIs would be a fairly legitimate request, or 15 billion euros. "

.

Source: lefigaro

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