The EU funds provided very limited assistance to the cultural sites they helped. Such is the very “mixed” assessment made by the European Court of Auditors in its Special Report 08/2020, published on Thursday, 23 April. In general, the auditors lament the fact that cultural investment is not seen as a priority, but as “[a] means of promoting economic objectives”.
The report examines the financial and physical viability of 27 projects in seven Member States: Germany, France,...