Cultural ignorance

Columnist Tanja Lesničar-Pučko comments on the website of Slovenian daily Dnevnik on the role of culture in the agenda of the French EU presidency. "One of the priorities of the French presidency which unfortunately will not be part of the official French initiatives is culture. According to the French representatives, the reason why culture is not on the official agenda is that the member states are not in agreement regarding cultural initiatives and the preservation of culture. ... France's politicians have nonetheless decided to offer the future countries of the EU presidency and above all their own citizens a six-month European culture programme. In France, cultural life consists mainly of domestic products. ... This explains why knowledge of other - and above all smaller, Eastern European cultures - borders on ignorance."

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