As arguments have raged in Europe about how to fund the heavy cost of the corona pandemic, French President, Emanuel Macron, has led calls for a European response. Macron’s political career is defined by his strongly pro-European stance but the pandemic may prove the greatest test of Europe and Macron thus far. SOUWIE BUIS has read the book . . .
Each month Souwie Buis writes on a subject related to the arts in Holland and further afield.
This month Souwie asks if their should be a basic income for artists. Calls by the European Parliament to allocate 2% of the EU recovery package to the creative and cultural sectors was rejected by the Council. Here in the Netherlands financial support for larger cultural institutions deemed to be “of vital importance” and rent suspension for state museums, has not directly addressed the struggles of smaller organisations and individual artists.
