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The 2nd Assembly of the Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends' Association in Paris last week was a great success.Wiking Flugzeug F4 Amiot 351 (Schub47) Many thanks again to the French Ministry of Culture for hosting our annual gathering. JC Wings A350-900 Singapore Airlines 9V-SMR New Mould JC4SIA097 - 1 400 scaleOn Wednesday June 5th and Thursday June 6th, more than 50 attendees participated in and took lessons from six main sessions, including those revolving around the theme Imagining the Cultural Policy Future.

In her keynote speech on the opening day, Professor Eleonora Belfiore argued that cultural policy models are facing a moral crisis, referring to the systematic exploitation of cultural workers contributing to the publicly funded practice:Hobbyboss 1 48 J-11B PLA Aircraft Model Kit "This problem might be resolved if we work collaboratively on an activist research agenda in which public cultural institutions and funders should be held accountable in the name of fairness and social justice."

For a complete summary of all our Assembly sessions, including the thought-provoking keynote on the complex notion of cultural sustainability by Professor Emeritus Yudhishthir Raj Isar, please review the full report here.

Assembly group picture at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art in Paris, Thursday June 6th 2019 (Photographer: Bogdan Palici)

This year, Péter Inkei from STARDUST DRAGON GERMAN GHOST RARE TDGS-EN040 DE040 NEAR MINT YUGIOH dove into the statistics on public funding of culture in Europe from 2004 up to and including 2017. In line with the Observatory’s mission to shed light on how cultural life is financed and governed in East-Central European countries, special attention was being paid to the eleven post-communist EU countries.

Compared to 2004, the combined total of general government expenditure in the 28 EU member states increased with 38% in 2017. Inkei demonstrates that the eleven Eastern countries were the engine for this increase – with a growing share of their GDP being spent on culture –  while the public cultural expenditure in Western countries is still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis. In his conclusion, Inflight200 1 200 South African Airways 747-300 ZS-SAUInkei ultimately stresses that these statistics must be complemented with systematic comparative analysis in order to grasp the essence of cultural funding: Israeli M50 Super Sherman Military Tank 1 35 Modern AFV Series Dragon Model Kit“We should care less about the amount of funding [and] stop mystifying percentages of GDP, [we] should focus on quality, on the soundness and effectiveness of financing.”

For more information on public funding of culture and the full report by Inkei, please visit our statistical section on funding.

We are pleased to announce that the first cultural policy profile based on the Compendium’s newly adopted methodological grid is now available on Culturalpolicies.net. National experts Anna Villarroya and Victoria Ateca-Amestoy have finished updating the Spanish profile which can be found in the special ‘New grid pilot profiles’ section using the button in the right-hand column.

Villarroya and Ateca-Amestoy report on many interesting developments in Spanish cultural policy. Phoenix 400 Thai Airways TG A300-600R 2004s color - Kings Logo 1 400The most outstanding one they detected was the Statute of Artists and Cultural Professionals and its final approval by the Congress of Deputies in September 2018 (as described in chapter 2.3).Live Resin LRE35181 1 35 Remote Controlled Weapon Station for MRAPs & M1 Abrams This implementation improves the position of Spanish artists and cultural professionals in regard to (among others) social security rights, copyright remuneration and the taxation of irregular incomes.

Other important cultural policy developments in Spain regarded gender equality and the combat against on- and offline piracy. Magic MTG Beta Bog Wraith BGS 8.5 (8, 9, 9.5, 9)During several professional encounters in 2018 (described in chapter 2.5.5) the gender perspective and the role of women in the cultural sphere was debated. The crack down of online piracy was tightened by the implementation of new copyright measures (as described in chapter 4.1.6).

With the help of our cultural policy experts, we are currently updating the Compendium’s cultural prices index (the CUPIX) with 2017 and 2018 data on music, books, film, museums, arts education and theatre. The first data we gathered was published today and the information from the remaining countries will be updated on the fly. Mercedes Benz 220SE 1 18These updates can be accessed by clicking the corresponding years above or through Yamato 1 60 VF-1A Assembly Kit With Option Parts. 

And we have more updates, thanks to the European Audiovisual Observatory: last week it Strip Mine (d Tower) Antiquities NM-M Land Uncommon MAGIC MTG CARD ABUGames the first estimates for European cinema attendance in 2018. Compared to 2017, the total of cinema admissions decreased by 3% (29.4 million tickets). We added the provisional data per country in our table on cinema admissions, which you can find here and in 'Participation' in the Statistics section. This will be updated again when the final data are available.