The budget of the Ministry of Culture will exceed 4 billion euros, announced Wednesday Roselyne Bachelot at a press conference.
In 2022, an envelope of 4.083 billion euros (excluding public broadcasting) will cover the culture component and the media, book and cultural industries sectors, against 3.805 billion euros in 2021. This budget will thus increase by 273 million euros, i.e. + 7.5% compared to the initial finance law for 2021.
"This historic progression",
according to the services of Ms. Bachelot, "will bring to + 15% the lasting increase in the means which have been allocated to culture since 2017, excluding public broadcasting and civil pension charges". Or an
"increase"
of 507 million compared to the start of the five-year term.
"The health crisis has hit the world of culture violently,"
insists the ministry.
In total,
"to date, 13.6 billion euros have been mobilized in favor of culture since the start of the epidemic":
"no country has supported culture at this point for eighteen months" ,
underlines the Ministry of Culture.
"We saved culture",
insisted Roselyne Bachelot, acknowledging however that
"the reopening remains fragile".
Objective: get out of the crisis
The 2022 draft budget should make it possible to
"get out of the crisis (born from the consequences of Covid-19)"
and
"to permanently rearm cultural policies",
according to her.
In detail, “all the taxes allocated to the National Cinema Center (CNC) should reach a total of 694 million euros, at a level slightly higher than that before the crisis, after two years of collapse of resources related to the health crisis, ”dissects the ministry.
This 2022 draft budget also allows
"the generalization of the Culture pass for 18-year-olds and its deployment in grades 4 to 12 with 140 million euros of new measures and the renewal of the 59 million endowments registered in 2021 ”.
On the other hand,
"the financial assistance account linked to the contribution to the public audiovisual sector will reach 3.701 billion, down 0.5%, respecting the planned budgetary trajectory",
argues rue de Valois.