The Minister of Tradition and Tourism, Zoran Ljutkov informs that parallel applications have been made, one for tradition and one for tourism, wherein the one essential factor that unites these two important departments is the event of cultural tourism.
As Lyutkov acknowledged within the matter of the day within the diary of Sitel Tv, in response to statistics, essentially the most funds within the financial system come from the event of cultural tourism.
“We have now a authorized deadline of 5 months to merge these two departments, we’re nonetheless engaged on a brand new systematization and I consider that someday in November, earlier than the finances for 2025 is ready, we will probably be prepared. Now we now have fashioned a number of groups, which is able to work on integrating these two departments. I’ll in all probability reply a bit later what the instructions of this ministry will probably be,” Minister Ljutkov mentioned.
In relation to the Movie Company, the minister knowledgeable that in the intervening time this Company owes two million euros, and my guess is, underlined, now that the audits are completed, it owes someplace round 11 million euros. Ljutkov introduced that they may discover a method to have extra funds, as a result of till 2017 there have been 7-8 million euros, and now there are solely 2,5 million eva. Not just for movie, however, he introduced, we are going to renew the process for acquiring funds for tv collection as effectively.
Requested whether or not there will probably be a rise in salaries on this division from September, Minister Ljutkov knowledgeable that at this second if the rebalancing of the Finances, the artists and different departments should not adopted, he mentioned, we now have no salaries from July onwards, we are actually within the rebalancing asking for salaries till the New 12 months . He added that there’s a Collective Settlement that was signed in 2019 and it needs to be revered whereas it’s in drive.
“If the minimal wage is elevated in March, the salaries of workers in nationwide establishments can even be elevated. The issue is that these collective agreements had been made partially in numerous establishments and in numerous sectors. No system has been created for public administration workers. Now partial options have been made with the collective agreements and an imbalance has been created. Someplace the salaries are excessive, some are low, we even have totally different salaries within the ministries, the place in a single ministry the staff obtain an estimated 30 p.c extra, and in one other 30 p.c much less, and so they carry out the identical perform, the Minister of Tradition identified, including that it’s essential to discover a method to equalize others with collective agreements and that, as he emphasizes, will probably be an enormous problem for the Authorities within the coming interval.
When requested what his thought of one denar from the excise responsibility on petroleum merchandise to go to tradition implies, he clarified that he proposes that three denars from the excise responsibility on petroleum merchandise mustn’t go on to the Authorities Finances, however that one denar ought to go on to sports activities, one denar to tradition. and one penny for schooling.
“The denar will go on to tradition, which implies that in 2025 we won’t request extra funds for tradition within the new finances, however that denar will imply 750 million denars yearly, which is someplace round 15-16 million euros, if not I am mendacity and it is going to be extra funds. Then there will probably be a finances and it is going to be spent on applications and capital investments, not on salaries. We now don’t have any manufacturing and we’re not productive and that’s what the minister wished to say, and the artists and workers are to not blame for that, however somebody didn’t present them with sufficient funds for applications, mentioned amongst different issues the Minister of Tradition and Tourism, Zoran Ljutkov.