<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The state most certainly does have a hand in how this funding is allotted, as</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">you've just seen in the Netherlands. Unlike the Judicial System, culture and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the funding of it is not separated from the state and its interests.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div></blockquote><br></div><div>What happened in NL is that the government put the advice of the arts council aside, which is a very unusual situation. </div><br></body></html>