• The Alliance, made up of 72 institutions From across Europe, it warns of the danger that the ideological use of certain cultural funding policies poses to artistic freedom.

La European Alliance of Academies has issued a statement “against budget cuts for el Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid”, alluding to the drastic reduction in the Community of Madrid's contribution to the institution. Since 1983, el Círculo It is governed through a public-private consortium made up of the Círculo, three public institutions —the Community of Madrid, the Madrid City Council and the Ministry of Culture— and various private organizations, which make annual contributions to finance the activities del CírculoIn two years, the Community of Madrid has gone from contributing 250.000 to 12.000 euros.

The Alliance has expressed its solidarity with el Círculo He asks the Community to reconsider its decision: “It would be the best way to counter any publicly expressed suspicion that there are ideological or political reasons behind this drastic cut, and to affirm that artistic freedom in the Madrid region is not currently threatened,” he says.