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6. Culture
The Government perceives the development of culture in the broadest sense of the word as a necessary condition for life quality improvement for the citizens of the Slovak Republic.
The Government will exercise a targeted cultural policy based on a consensus reached in the previous period that a support for culture from public funds is legitimate and, at the same time, that direct political and ideological influence on culture is inadmissible.
The Government considers the protection and use of the cultural heritage, jointly with the support for new original art and its presentation, to be one of the crucial pillars of maintaining and strengthening Slovakia's identity in the environment of globalisation and commercialisation of culture. In the development of culture, the Government sees an efficient tool for the protection of the individual from an unbalanced, consumeristic way of life and an irreplaceable tool of deepening the spiritual dimension of human life. In this context, the Government will extend the scope for cooperation also with churches and religious associations.
The Government, in its initiatives in the field of culture, will observe three basic principles - continuity, communication and coordination. Continuity with all the positive developments in this field in the previous period, communication with the cultural community and other involved groups as an important part of the process of adopting essential decisions in the field, and co-ordination with the objective of positive synergy when creating conditions and effectively using the sources for protection, creation, and propagation of culture.
The Government will attend to the development and protection of the Slovak language as the state language in cooperation with competent state and scientific institutions as well as with professional teams of Matica slovenská (Slovak Heritage).
In the coming term, the Government wants to set clear priorities for culture, which express the interest of the state in particular areas of culture that could not function without state support or which are irreplaceable for the state or for culture. To implement these priorities, the Government will create not only appropriate legislative, organisational, and methodological conditions, but it will also continue providing direct financial assistance from public funds.
