Nicholas Payne, Opera Europa, in Interview at the we are more campaign launch

Brussels, BOZAR, 7 october 2010

Can you give us your two best arguments for why cultural budget should be maintained if not increased.

Culture enriches peoples' lives and civilized societies support culture, along with the other public services (education, healthcare, public transport).

Is there a European shared space, and if there is, what is culture contributing to it?

What bounds Europe together are the cultural values.

What does arts and culture make us more of?

They make us richer in our lifes, in what we share with our children and families, but also with the rest of the world.

Nicholas Payne

www.wearemore.eu