Mayors Agenda's: Emerging Variations on the Theme of Entrepreneurialism

It is assessed which specific objectives of the mayors’ activities have occurred— particularly against the background of the enduring economic crisis and the emergence of new social and environmental issues. From the data emerges a tripartite trend in the European mayors’ agendas: three political patterns where the attention to local development and economic growth is still prevalent. Nevertheless, in comparison with the past, mayors’ political priorities are now characterised by a less marked orientation towards the improvement in local infrastructural endowments, with the relevant exception of eastern European countries. At the same time, the social and environmental challenges bring with them new policy trends. The issues related to land consumption and population density take importance, in particular among the mayors of the cities located in the southern countries of Europe