Istat: Common reduced to 8,057 at the beginning of 2014, as in 1971 – BBC

Istat: Common reduced to 8,057 at the beginning of 2014, as in 1971 – BBC

13:01 ROME (Dow Jones) – The spending review put the kibosh also to the number of municipalities. Historically Italy and ‘the country of many Municipalities’ but in the early months of 2014 fell to 8,057 units ‘, a level similar to that of 1971. And’ what emerges from the directory statistical Italian 2014 explaining how 31 December 2013 seven out of ten municipalities have a population equal to or less than 5000 inhabitants. This administrative fragmentation and ‘still in the process of reducing the effect of the policy of containment of public spending that is affecting the number of municipalities. Istat also notes that there is ‘a return in the city’. The population distribution between the provincial capitals and municipalities included in the urban belts is again changing. After escaping from the big city ‘of the early years of this decade – ; which increased significantly the residents of the municipalities of the first and second belt, and the trend is’ reversed between 2011 and 2013. Even with a few small exceptions, the displacements direzionano is now towards the center from the first capital crown but also from the second, although in this case the intensity ‘and’ less evident. BCE eva.palumbo@mfdowjones.it (end) AFX NEWS 2313: 00 December 2014