PARIS — France began charging non-EU visitors to the Louvre Museum 45 percent more than Europeans on Wednesday, in a controversial bid to raise money for renovations at the beleaguered Paris landmark. The move is one of the boldest adoptions in Europe of so-called "dual pricing" at museums — charging visitors different prices depending on their origins. The practice is common in many developing countries, but until now was largely absent in Europe and has been criticised for being discriminatory and reducing access for some low-income foreign visitors to the home of the Mona Lisa. Tourists who spoke to AFP on Wednesday had mixed reactions. Kevin Flynn, an Australian in his 60s in Paris for a week with his wife, said the new 32-euro ($37) tariff for non-Europeans was "acceptable." "It's the same price for many things in Italy, many things in Malta ... of such magnitude," he said. But others, such as Tak Joo-hwan from Korea, thought it was "unfair." "We're all human beings. It's a big difference," he added. "If I go to India, people from India pay less than people from abroad — it's fair