Urban governance in Europe

remarks are dedicated to the real problem of the Italian local governance: the bureaucratic engine. The educational background and the professionalism of administrative staff is sounder the more you move from the local to the national level of government (this holds true also in other countries such as France). Accordingly, the important reform aimed at allocating the power to manage resources on an administrative rather than on a political scale (let’s think that administrative acts having effectiveness vis-à-vis third parties are all adopted by bureaucratic rather than political staff), which was conceived to accelerate the modernization of the Country, may at the very end jeopardize it.