/ world today news/ Laws are needed to manage money in culture, said Prof. Velislav Minekov in an interview for the BNR program “Nedelya 150”:
“The trouble with money in culture is that it can be poured, no matter how much, into a bottomless well. No matter how much you raise these funds, they can be squandered. Laws are needed to govern this money. First – possibly the state subsidies, which are minimal. Second – normally functioning laws to support patronage – as it is in Europe. If there is decent patronage in our country, if there are conditions for patronage, if corporate patronage is offered, then the money will double by itself. The budget should not be relied on that if it comes to 1%, this money will be directed in the right way and in the right place”.
“The Culture and Media Commission is loaded with prejudice against the anti-choice protesters there. The trouble is that very few of those who protested or we protested know what this commission is for. In reality, they feel threatened in some way. The only threat is that this commission – as it has for the past 25 years – will get nothing done. And the expectations are that there will be bills right there, a change is expected – an amendment and supplement to the Cultural Heritage Act or a new law, because it is ineffective, on the contrary – it acts in the service of criminals. There should be a new law in place of the Law for the Protection of Bulgarian Culture, which is comical, absolutely ineffective, in its place a Law for the Support and Development of Bulgarian Culture. If such a law appears, the minister and the ministry are in jeopardy, i.e. there must be a minister who will take suicidal actions and decide on laws,” Minekov pointed out.
The chairman of the BAS, Academician Stefan Vodenicharov, was named by Polina Karastoyanova as a potential advisor to the commission. However, he told “Horizon” that he had not heard of such a thing. He warned that the efforts of Bulgarian archaeologists, due to bad legislation, are going to waste:
“The fact that the people who discovered something must somehow be involved in its maintenance and expansion must be very carefully considered. The other thing – all these permits for excavating, for how to preserve the objects… We’re just very careless about what’s underneath us. Some way must be found so that everything collected by some collectors can be shown more freely to the Bulgarian nation”.
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