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Artists may get a supplementary €1623 pension in Finland, a €1038 Creative Downtime Payment in Lithuania or nothing at all in Greece. Cultural and social-affairs officials from 21 member-states worked together at the Commission's initiative in a workshop that should happen more than once, says CreativeFLIP’s Expert Joost Heinsius, who was there. Read on.
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