INTERVIEW
Intermittent, small museums, cinemas ... The Minister of Culture Franck Riester listed on Tuesday morning on Europe 1 a series of measures and guidelines for a sector very hard hit by the coronavirus crisis and deconfinement. But the main "announcements" in this area will be made Wednesday by Emmanuel Macron himself. At the microphone of Europe 1, the former Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon warns against too strong interventionism of the Head of State in this sensitive sector.
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"Emmanuel Macron must be careful not to bring everything back to him", explains Jean-Jacques Aillagon, with responsibilities in the governments of Jean-Pierre Raffarin, from 2002 to 2004. "He exposes himself and becomes fragile", develops l 'current advisor to François Pinault in his cultural activities, who also calls for the launch of a real Marshall plan to "save" and "save culture".
A threatened ministry?
Should Franck Riester fear for his prerogatives, in a field that the head of state likes to preempt? "I want the government to exercise all its responsibility and that everyone can exercise their ministry," warns Jean-Jacques Aillagon. "I am very concerned about everything that looks like an amputation on the part of the responsibility of the ministry and very concerned that it be restored to all of its powers."
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"It is an old habit, very monarchical in the practice of institutions, to turn to the President" during a crisis like the one we are experiencing, recalls Jean-Jacques Aillagon on Europe 1, who insists on the need to keep a weight fort rue de Valois, at the headquarters of the ministry: "There is a Minister of Culture, it is up to him to set up a vast program of survival and development of culture. If we do not put the Ministry of Culture at the outposts, could ask the question of its usefulness and therefore of its existence. "