This photograph shows a placard displayed on a bus stop reading "cut to rule" and depicting a French guillotine 'decapitating' "Sports, equality and culture" during a demonstration in Nantes, western France, on December 19, 2024, where the 2025 budget review began, to protest against the drastic cuts to culture and sport announced by the President of the Pays de la Loire region. The 2025 budget provides for drastic cuts in subsidies for culture, sport, community life and the economy, with a target savings of 100 million. It also provides for the non-renewal of 100 posts within the Region's departments. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis / AFP) (Photo by SEBASTIEN SALOM-GOMIS/AFP via Getty Images)