International trust in Italy is growing
The Index drawn up annually by the most important global anti-corruption organization classifies countries according to the level of perceived corruption in the public sector, through the use of 13 analysis tools and surveys aimed at experts from the business world. The final score is determined on the basis of a scale ranging from 0 (high level of perceived corruption) to 100 (low level of perceived corruption). The progress of Italy highlighted in this edition of the CPI, in line with the constant improvement from 2012 to today, is the result of the growing attention paid to corruption problem in the last decade and bodes well for the country’s economic recovery after the crisis generated by the pandemic. Indeed, the country’s relaunch phase requires the utmost attention to prevention of corruption risks, so that the commitments made for digitization, innovation, ecological transition, health and infrastructure can be fully realized.
“Italy’s international credibility has strengthened over the past year also due to the efforts of numerous stakeholders from the private sector and civil society to promote the values of transparency, anti-corruption and integrity. The emergency generated by the pandemic has strongly influenced the elaboration of the CPI, since in some cases it has generated less confidence in the countries that have preferred to remove the guarantees of control, in others it has led to a strengthening of collective consciousness and more solid responses. by the Governments – commented the results the President of Transparency International Italia Iole Anna Savini.
On the front anti-corruption and transparency however, there are still some outstanding issues. “Among the most relevant issues” – he argues the director of Transparency International Italy Giovanni Colombo – “there is a delay in the transposition of the European Directive 2019/1937 on the subject of whistleblowing, the terms of which expired in December 2021, which would allow the regulation contained in Law 179/2017 to be completed. We are also still awaiting the publication of the register of beneficial owners and we hope that the legislative process for regulating lobbying will be completed in the best possible way ”.
Corruption perception index: Italy climbs the ranking by 10 positions
Globally, Denmark and New Zealand remain at the top of the rankings, joined this year also by the Finland, with 88 points. At the bottom of the ranking, like last year, Syria, Somalia and South Sudan, with a score of 13 for the first two and 11 for the third respectively. However, from 2012 to 2021, 154 countries have not made significant progress or have worsened their score, and in the last year 2/3 of the countries analyzed (123 out of 180) still have significant corruption problems, having achieved a score below 50, and highlight a strong risk of backwardness in the protection of human rights, freedom of expression and a crisis of democracy.
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