The city councilor of Vienna, Veronica Kaup-Hasler (Spö), openly speaks to the involvement of a “cultural euro” of tourists. The reason is also the increased number of overnight stays in the federal capital.
“We have a special class tourism,” says Kaup-Hasler. Culture is the most important travel area that people from all over the world move to Vienna.
That is why she could also win a lot to the considerations to allow the culture to take advantage of the increased at night in the form of a special delivery: “I think the introduction of a cultural euro is absolutely superior.”
Warning for negative developments in neighboring countries
The municipal councilor, who is also responsible for science, warns of developments elsewhere, of developments, about cultural -political balances in Slovakia or Hungary, for the current debates in Styria and the dismantling of an open and different society in the US, who also led to an initial exodus in science. Would that not be a chance in Vienna, where you assigned after the war to actively restore emigrants to set up a new welcome culture? “The right moment would actually be.
“I don’t have an end!”
From Berlin, where the radical austerity course becomes the cultural scene en masse, an increased influx of artists is also noticeable, says Kaup-Hasler. “Many now want to come to Vienna. This increases the pressure in the scene.” But in Vienna, where the cultural budget has expanded enormously in recent years, savings will also be made in the future. The future motto seems to have more ideas about less money. “I will continue to act for my areas in the future. It always applies to households carefully with the taxpayers. I have an end to an end! We have to be resourceful and create synergies.”
“No law on cultural development is needed”
Vienna is the only federal state that does not have its own art and cultural promotion law. This was last criticized, but will stay that way. Kaup-Hasler advised this in detail with her experts and came to the conclusion: “It does not need a Cultural Development Act,” the politician is certain. “What has been formulated in the cultural financing laws in the federal states, these structures have long lived in Vienna. No tax money has to be spent on lip service.
Source: Krone
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