The cultural bond will include video games, but not bulls, or fashion or gastronomy

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The Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, has explained that the cultural voucher that the Government will give to young people who turn 18 with 400 euros for cultural consumption will include video games, but not bullfights, design, fashion or gastronomy.

In an interview with El Periódico, reported by Europa Press this Monday, Iceta has specified that the Executive's intention is to issue a decree at the end of January that regulates "precisely" the content on which said money can be spent bond. He has clarified that digital products and subscriptions to platforms and the media will have a cap: "We would not want anyone to spend the bonus on just one thing," the minister argued.

He has also claimed that the range of cultural products to which he will be able to dedicate "will be very large" and has detailed that they have used the culture accounts that the Ministry prepares each year in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics (INE) as a guide to prepare the bond. "What is contemplated there as culture is, as a general rule, what the Youth cultural voucher will cover," assured Iceta, who literally celebrated that the notion of culture is very broad and very personal.

When asked about the project for the Public Library of the State in Barcelona, ​​Iceta assured that in 2023 the first stone will be laid and in 2027 "it should be finished if nothing goes wrong", given that in 2022 there are 1.5 million euros budgeted, of which 1.2 will serve to empty the site on which it will be built and the remaining 300,000 to adapt the project to new requirements.

Audiovisual sector

When asked about the differences in the audiovisual sector between Catalonia and Madrid, Iceta stated that "there is undoubtedly ground that Catalonia has lost and Madrid is now leading the battle" in this area , a change that he has literally attributed to several years of a perception of instability and looking more inward than outward in the Catalan community.

He stressed that Catalonia has "great potential in the audiovisual field and must take advantage of it" and stressed that one of the Government's projects is an audiovisual 'hub' that is not limited to Madrid and promotes investments in other autonomous communities that help both their own production and the installation of foreign companies.