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Collaboration with associations to support and relaunch the sector has been renewed   

Milan, July 31 2021 - From magazine and newspaper outlets to info-points and multi-service spaces for citizens and tourists spread across the entire Milan area. This is the objective of the guidelines approved by the Administration for the relaunch, evolution and support of Milanese newsstands.  

A provision that renews the collaboration between the Municipality of Milan and the Associations CISL Giornalai, FENAGI Confesercenti, FIEG Milano, Si.Na.GI aff. SLC-CGIL, SNAG Milan, UILTuCS newsagents, for the relaunch of newsstands in the city of Milan which began in 2017.   

“Thanks to the renewal of this collaboration, we continue to implement a broader project that will lead the city's newsstands to transform into a widespread network of city info-points on the occasion of major events such as the next 2026 Winter Olympics and beyond – explain the Cristina Councilors Tajani (Commerce, Productive Activities), Roberta Guaineri (Sport and Leisure), Roberta Cocco (Civic Services and Digital Transformation) and Roberto Tasca (Budget and State Property) -. We want newsstands to once again become a valid point of reference in every neighborhood of the city. Spaces where citizens, and especially the elderly, can easily find all the information to experience the city or access the online services offered by the Administration such as all registry certificates or other documents for which it is not necessary to personally go to the municipal offices".      

The provision confirms the possibility for newsstands to combine the normal activity of selling magazines, newspapers and periodicals with information on the services and tourist opportunities and events offered by the city throughout the year as well as on information campaigns implemented by the Administration. Spaces which, by virtue of their widespread presence in the territory, can also constitute a network of new services for the benefit of the neighborhoods and the population, effectively contributing to extending the use of online municipal services, especially among the elderly, avoiding unnecessary travel in a perspective of increasingly proximity branches.  

A collaboration that aims to be a significant support for a category, that of newsstands, at the center of a significant economic and identity crisis, deriving from multiple factors: firstly from the spread of technological innovation of online information and editorial services in general and further radicalized due to the epidemiological emergency from Covid 19, which over the last year has led to the cessation of activity by several city newsstands.  

Furthermore, since May 2020, the Municipality has started an agreement with newsstands for the issuing of registry certificates. A growing service: to date there are over 80 participating newsstands, which in the month of June issued 4784 certificates, 3.5 percent of the total, more than double the certificates issued at the registry office, which recorded only 2.089 requests, 1.5 per percent of the 141.327 certificates issued in all available modalities. Newsstands can issue certificates: Contextual (Birth, Residence, Citizenship, Existence in Life), Contextual Aire, Contextual and family status, Citizenship, De facto cohabitation, Marriage, Death, Birth, Residence, Family status, Free status, Civil union, Certificate of Cohabitation Contract. 

There are currently 544 newspaper and magazine outlets in the Milan area, of which 413 exclusive and 131 non-exclusive, widely distributed in the central and peripheral areas in shops, supermarkets, hospitals, underground mezzanines, railway stations, kiosks in private areas and kiosks on public areas. In the last two years (2018 - 2021), the number of newsstands in the city has decreased by 5,7%: since 2018, a total of 33 outlets have ceased operations.