#Italy: Milan is the new new cosmopolitan city of the EU. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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🗓️ 28 January 2023
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#Italy: Milan is the new new cosmopolitan city of the EU. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-25/london-money-turbocharges-milan-s-economic-boom?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230125&utm_campaign=sharetheview&sref=5g4GmFHo
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| 0:57.0 | I go to right to Lorenzo to ask what's happened. Why this sudden attention? I'm told that |
| 1:03.8 | at the Milan train station, you can feel the energy. This is wonderful. What did you do |
| 1:11.5 | right, Lorenzo? Good day to you. |
| 1:13.5 | Good day, John. Good day to all the radio listeners. I would say I'm a bit shy tonight |
| 1:22.1 | with your question because my town is Milan. I feel very much the sentiment that the people |
| 1:30.4 | that comes to Milan to live in Milan. Milan, if I may, is a place to be. I'm not saying |
| 1:37.2 | that because I'm from Milan. I'm saying that because this is what I heard from many friends |
| 1:43.0 | that came from other towns, from many other parts of Italy. But even many friends that |
| 1:48.2 | are foreigner that came to Milan and spent part of their life to Milan. Milan is a place |
| 1:53.6 | to be. Why is a place to be? Because there are a lot of opportunities for job, opportunity |
| 1:59.4 | to enjoy a very good quality of life. The food is excellent. You have an international |
| 2:07.0 | environment because Milan is not in Italian town. It's a real cosmopolitan town. There |
| 2:14.4 | was a turnaround. I have to tell you about Milan, which started almost, let's say, 15, 20 |
| 2:21.8 | years ago when the major at that time, who is a friend of mine, decided to requalify |
| 2:28.8 | many of the territories that the factories that were inside Milan during the 60 and the |
| 2:35.4 | 70 disappeared. And so there were a lot of empty space left, I would say, abandoned |
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