Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, assured me that he will create it this Monday “spaces for dialogue and change“Overcoming the colonial framework of gender or ethnocentric inertia in state museums”vision of heritage, history and artistic heritage”.
Urtasun, who joined the Congress Culture Commission at his own request, said that these measures ” review process” Currently active museum collections at the National Museum of Anthropology or the Museum of the Americas.
In his own words, in these institutions, “Efforts are being made to make visible and recognize the perspective of societies and the memory of the people. where the exhibited goods come from”.
A general directive to combat censorship
Additionally, the Minister announced that the General Directorate of Cultural Rights will be established. to fight against censor“We want to make cultural rights a new framework for designing public policies, such as cultural public policies in Europe today,” he explained.
A plan to be pursued on various axes: “A firm stance against all forms of censorship“, pay attention to the promotion of dignified conditions for cultural studies and guarantee that all citizens, regardless of their origin, have equal access to cultural resources and opportunities, as well as linking education and culture.
“It is therefore about the development of concrete actions and specific measures that create the best possible conditions so that cultural projects can be developed and citizens can enjoy a full cultural life, the implementation of which cannot be restricted by any prior censorship.” , added.
A few words accompanying the complaint: “Cultural creation and production is going through a historical moment of change in which censorship and political intervention are gaining ground in the management of public culture (..) This Directorate’s activities that would accompany every creator, writer or collective have been erased from the public sphere or censored”.
Just when it was time to respond to political spokespeople, Urtasun made an accusation Vox different actions against culture: “I will not tolerate in this country your boycott of the Miguel Hernández award. I will not tolerate your boycott of the Periferias Festival, as you did by blackmailing the People’s Party government in Huesca and the PP by accepting it (…) I will not tolerate your canceling and persecuting Catalan children’s broadcasts in Valencia “I will neither condone nor accept it,” he warned.
Support for Itziar Ituño
On the other hand, upon Bildu’s question, Urtasun expressed his support for the player. Itziar Ituno (‘La casa de papel’) was criticized for speaking in favor of softening prison policy towards ETA prisoners, stating that his treatment in certain areas was “unacceptable”.
Regarding bullfighting, an industry he never named in his speech, the Head of Culture responded to PP MP Sol Guzmán: “You don’t have to be very agile to see what I said in the past in the European Parliament regarding bullfighting. All I can tell you is, which I have already encountered, public expenditure ministry of culture there are almost none in bullfighting“.
Similarly, in his speech, the minister demanded that all Spanish public administrations increase their investment in culture, aiming for this to represent 1% of total public expenditure in Spain (compared with the current 0.7%, according to Eurostat data). According to Urtasun, this is “a collective obligation.”
In the field of legislation, Urtasun announced that a new Inheritance Law would be considered; The reform of the Inaem Law and the Cinema Law will be developed. He announced that this law will be published in the coming weeks in order to complete the final stage of its discussions in parliament.
Likewise, Urtasun also attracted attention. The urgent need to “protect both minority languages” Aragonese and Asturian are common unofficial but “recognised and protected by statutes of autonomy” languages.
The Minister also devoted part of his speech to Artificial Intelligence, describing it as a “challenge” that we must ensure is a tool that “is at the service of cultural workers, easily facilitating work processes and enabling, if this is possible.” This is what is wanted, to release spaces to create more and better (…) to be a technology in the service of creation and experimentation.