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Last broadcast on Tue, 11 Jan 2011, 15:45 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
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.
Read more about Riace's mayor on the BBC News website
The mayor of Riace in southern Italy was able to give his village a future by welcoming and integrating, rather than opposing, asylum seekers, as Lucy Ash reports.
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