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Three European countries have become at the forefront of protecting their cultural industries in the coronavirus storm. All of them have made extensive financial contributions for direct aid, in addition to other measures that favor a particularly fragile economic sector. Meanwhile, Spain still does not have a term or an amount.

The largest investment, in italy.

Italy, the first country to face the closure of its economy by COVID-19, created on March 17 a fund of 25,000 million euros to revive its private sector. The heading for culture, for now, is 130 million euros. In addition, the State has suspended the payment of taxes and withholdings to companies that manage theaters, concert halls, cinemas, museums, libraries, archives, monuments and also bars and restaurants . Self-employed workers already have a monthly grant of 600 euros.

GERMANY: worker aid.

On March 24, the Ministry of Culture announced that it had a fund of 50 million euros to provide liquidity to cultural companies and their professionals. How do you distribute them? A monthly support of 1,600 euros is foreseen, in addition to direct financial subsidies for rental and heating expenses, for small and medium-sized companies as well as for self-employed workers. The money is distributed through the Federal Employment Agency job center. "All this should be done as simple as possible in the application process," says a ministerial prayer. Companies with up to five employees (full-time) will receive aid totaling 9,000 euros every three months of hiatus. And companies with up to 10 employees (full-time or a corresponding number of full-time or part-time employees) will receive a total of € 15,000 every three months. Loans of up to 30,000 euros must be possible without a guarantee. Furthermore, Germany (like France and Belgium) has declared the book as a priority asset. The bookstores will be the first businesses to open when the quarantine ends.

Commitment in France.

In addition to the basic measures that try to alleviate the economy throughout Europe, the Government of Emmanuel Macron reserved on March 20 a first batch of 22 million euros for culture. The State, in addition, has arranged cheap credits through BPIFrance (the equivalent of the Spanish Official Credit Institute), assumes moratoriums on public taxes for individuals and SMEs, and offers to mediate conflicts with clients. In this last line, France has promised to keep paying for all cultural services contracted and canceled by the coronavirus: if a sound technician, for example, had a contract with a French city council to work on a concert in April, he knows that you can collect that task.

UNITED KINGDOM: another world.

The Government of the United Kingdom will not act directly, but its role corresponds to the Arts Council England, a public company that generates, manages and invests cultural funds and that has announced that it has more than 200 million euros to support its sector.

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