The growing influence of cities and spending priorities for the EU Recovery Fund

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Paul Adamson

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4.4 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence since 2014 and President of Eurocities, talks to Paul Adamson about the growing influence of cities, tensions between local and central government in Italy, and spending priorities for the new EU Recovery Fund.

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0:00.0	This is Paul Adamson and welcome to In Conversation, the regular podcast of my online magazine InCompass.
0:11.7	I chat informally with personalities from a wide variety of backgrounds on a wide variety of subjects.
0:17.2	If you like this podcast, you can go to the magazine's website, Encompass-Europe.com,
0:22.8	or any of the main platforms for free access to all the podcasts to date. I hope you enjoy this
0:27.9	conversation. My guest is Dario Nardella.
0:40.0	Dario Nadella is the mayor of Florence and president of Euro cities.
0:44.0	Dario, thank you for doing this podcast.
0:46.6	Thank you to you.
0:47.9	Right.
0:48.2	I'd like us to talk about three things, Dario.
0:51.0	First of all, your role, your life as mayor of Florence. Secondly, your role as
0:57.3	president of Eurocities and what that organization does. But I would like the biggest part of our
1:03.2	conversation for the next 20 minutes or so to be devoted to how you think Italy's allocation of
1:08.7	this next generation EU, the fund, should be spent in your
1:13.2	judgment. So let's kick off by life as the mayor of Florence and explain to our listeners,
1:19.1	maybe you're not familiar with the system in Italy. What degree of autonomy does a mayor like
1:24.0	you have vis-a-vis the central government? What are the extent of your powers, if you like?
1:29.7	Okay, so first of all, thank you for this great opportunity.
1:34.8	I'm Mayor Florence since 2014, and as you know, my city is a global city,
1:44.1	is one of the best Italian symbol in the world and thanks
1:50.7	to this aspect obviously we are one of the protagonists in the Italian framework, political framework.
2:02.6	But from the institutional point of view,
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