How place-sensitive are the National Recovery and Resilience Plans?

This policy study addresses the potential impact of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) on territorial inequalities and the sustainable well-being of people across Europe, particularly of citizens living in left-behind places. The study analyses whether and how the NRRPs of Italy, Portugal and Spain have adopted a place-based perspective, with particular attention 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; the availability and access of documents and information useful for investigation and