European Union Urban Policy does not Meet Development of Peripheral European Metropolis

European urban policy, after a pilot program, was widely experimented with Urban. In a second step, the urban issue was integrated in one axis of Operative Regional Programs for the Regional Development Funds. This move let suppose that it could fuel the development of peripheral metropolis, but the program was anchored to the aims of its start and was still used more as in an equitable perspective to rehabilitate distressed neighborhoods or support medium size cities instead of focus over a metropolitan policy aimed to the growth of competiveness. On the contrary, the Italian metropolis more active in the process of confronting with global competition and changing themselves to develop factors identified as indicators of global cities, relied on urban policy enacted by city government, based on local resources with the support of state funding. On the bases of this review, it does not seems that nor a European neither a national policy now exists to support peripheral metropolis in the continent.