"Doubling the budget for culture and art" - Berisha: Deep reform of the funding sources of this sector
During a press conference, the leader of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, presented the program of this political force for culture and art. According to him, there will be a Ministry of Culture with the most important mission of developing, consolidating and protecting national culture.
Meritocracy and the removal of this sector from conflict of interest will be the basis of the reform. The reform of the arts and culture system must engage in a deep reform of the sources of financing of this sector. The government will increase the contribution, will double the budget for culture and art. This is not enough.
Berisha emphasized that the government will enable the private sector's contribution to sponsoring private, cultural and artistic activities with the best sponsorship laws.
The government is committed to national cooperation. So, culture is a matter of national identity. The government is committed to supporting artists and people of culture, letters, books, Albanians wherever they are. A radical transformation of legislation in the field of art, culture and books.
According to the democratic leader, there will be a mandatory return for all public libraries to have books published by Albanian authors, but also by foreign authors. He added that a great effort will be made to promote the book.
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