Germany agrees €2.5bn package to help revive Covid-hit culture sector
by Kate Connolly in Berlin from on (#5JC8T)
Finance minister calls measures the biggest cultural subsidy programme' since end of the second world war
A 2.5bn (2.15bn) package has been agreed by the German government to help the culture industry get back on its feet as the country slowly emerges from a third wave of the Covid pandemic.
The finance minister, Olaf Scholz, has called the package the biggest cultural subsidy programme" since the end of the second world war.
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