Culture: Emmanuel Macron – nine years to break a promise
“ Culture is not merely a sector of public policy: it is the expression of a vision for society. That is why my political project is, first and foremost, a cultural project .” In April 2017, Emmanuel Macron gave a lengthy response to questions from ElectronLibre . He promised to restore the Ministry of Culture to “the place it should never have ceased to hold ”, to “revitalise the European project through culture ”… and to defend cultural exception. On the subject of copyright, he was even more categorical: “Without copyright, there is no freedom to create, and no creation .” The desire to believe in it The cultural sector wanted to believe in it. Professionals capable of speaking to its various sectors had rallied around the candidate. Marc Schwartz,…