
Emmanuel Macron’s got a point: Why shouldn’t we charge tourists to see our treasures?
Introducing, five years on, another Brexit bonus: the chance to support the renovation of the Louvre. President Emmanuel Macron has proposed paying for the “renaissance” of the Paris museum, in part, by increasing entrance fees for visitors from outside the EU.
After some initial attempts to represent this as a direct insult – “Brits will be forced to pay more than EU residents” (the Mail) – even the rabidly pro-Brexit press appears to have accepted that the scheme applies globally, to all non-EU visitors: an exceptionally cunning way of Brit-targeting, even for the French.
If anything, of course, this opportunity for Britons to pay more is a proud reminder of their own Brexit triumph: a cultural dividend up there with the loss of the Erasmus scheme and wrecked prospects for UK musicians.… Seguir leyendo »