Abuse of office and proposed repeal, EU: “Risks of hindering the interception of corruption cases”
“We are aware of the draft of the Italian law which proposes some changes to the rules which regulate violations against the public administration. These proposed changes would decriminalize important forms of corruption and could have an impact on the effective ability to intercept corruption cases. The legislative process is ongoing and we will continue to follow developments”. spokesperson of the European Commission, Christian Wigand, in the daily press conference of the European executive responding to a question on the decriminalization of the crime of Abuse of office in Italy. “There Fighting corruption is a high priority for the European Commission. We have adopted the anti-corruption package in May to strengthen the prevention and fight against corruption”, Wigand recalled.
Repeal of abuse of office, Lega: “Yet another serious interference by the EU on issues that concern only Italians”
“The decision of the EU Commission regarding the decriminalization of abuse of office is theyet another interference in events that concern only Italy and Italians. The government is determined to put mayors and entrepreneurs to work: according to the Ministry of Justice, from 2019 to 2022 there were a total of 21,278 proceedings with just 202 convictions, 0.95%”. Thus a note from the League, in response to the doubts of the European Commission on the repeal of abuse of office.
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