EU STATE AID APPROVAL MUSEUMS DENMARK POLAND HUNGARY
November 1st, 2005
BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) is not only concerned with trade and to underline this point the European Commission acted this summer to authorise national government subsidies for museums and other cultural organisations in Hungary, Poland and Denmark. The sums involved were not enormous - the total subsidies and tax breaks was only around Euro 30 million - but such decisions are politically sensitive and care has been taken by the Commission to avoid being accused of allowing one country's cultural organisations to have better treatment than another. ...
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