How place-sensitive are the national recovery and resilience plans?

This policy study aims to address the potential impact of the NRRPs on territorial inequalities and on the sustainable wellbeing of people across Europe, in particular of citizens living in left-behind places. The policy study analyses whether and how the NRRPs of Italy, Portugal and Spain have adopted a place-based perspective, with particular attention paid to territorial cohesion. The three cases were identified on the basis of the emergence of the territorial question as a policy problem; the presence of governments that pose themselves in a different way with respect to the way of conceiving public policies; their differences and the interplay between EU and national policies; and, last but not least, the availability of and access to documents and information useful for investigation and comparison. Place-sensitive or place-based are terms used to capture all the main policy features needed for a positive impact on social justice.