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Europeans on the Edge

Episode 2: The mayor who saved an Italian village

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Lucy Ash profiles Italian mayor Domenico Lucano in her series about individuals whose lives reflect the crisis in the European economy. The mayor from Calabria, in Southern Italy, has just been voted one of the world's best mayors. He has managed simultaneously to create employment, stop a mass exodus from his village and find a solution to the controversial issue of asylum seekers. The downside is that he has received the unwelcome attentions of the local mafia.

Producer: Mark Savage. Show less

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