The government must earmark more
funds for towns and cities or else many of the 'comuni'
(municipalities) will go into financial crisis, Turin Mayor
Chiara Appendino said Monday, saying that the three billion
euros granted to councils by a recent decree were not enough.
"It is clear that the three billion from the government to
the comuni is not sufficient," she told Italian radio.
"Unless the government intervenes by July 31 we will be one
of the comuni that, like many others, will go into financial
crisis".
Appendino said Turin city council "is lacking over 230
million euros of its 1.3 billion budget".
She said "we expect dialogue with the government to go ahead
and that further resources are earmarked before July 31".
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