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French Ministry of Culture budget conference: good news and bad news
1. Rima Abdul Malak, Minister for Culture, at the presentation of the 2024 budget.
Photo: Didier Rykner
Photo: Didier Rykner
French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak presented the Ministry of Culture’s budget on Wednesday (see the conference here). As we have often written, a budget can only be fully judged once it has actually been spent. In the past, there have often been big differences between the forecasts and what was actually spent. While we don’t currently know what the budget for 2023 will be, as the year is not yet over, we do recognise that, as we write in our forthcoming book on Notre-Dame de Paris[Didier Rykner, Notre-Dame. Une affaire d’État, Les Belles Lettres] that since the health crisis, and particularly in 2022, the budgets voted and…