By Yannis A. Economides
Educational-Cultural Scientist
More attention is finally being paid - as has been the common desire of everyone for many years - to our Culture and its soul, its people.
In a similar way, four other Deputy Ministries have already been created in order to decongest large Ministries and thus here too, our Culture is given the attention it deserves, realizing a dream, satisfying an urgent need of decades.
It is therefore a necessity, given the great cultural heritage of our country, the depth we have in history, but also the continuous remarkable artistic creation, to give new perspectives in the management of culture, both heritage and current creation, by the State.
The Deputy Ministry will be a Deputy Ministry under the Presidency, as are the other Deputy Ministries we have.
The logic is the same, with the same basic principles followed in the creation of the other Deputy Ministries. Basically, all the State Services and Departments, which we have at the moment and which deal with culture, are brought together in a new structure, which, based on budgetary neutrality, will be managed by a Deputy Minister and a Director General.
With this first major institutional intervention for culture, it is expected that more resources and more possibilities will be provided for cultural policy. This will be able to be done subsequently and on a better basis, since we have this separate structure, the Ministry of State for Culture.
The executive body for cultural policy, the State Ministry of Culture, is now a fact and those who have worked methodically and hard to realise this vision, in particular the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, now, and the State, are to be congratulated for seeing their brainchild take shape after decades.
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