Italy is no longer able to improve its fight against corruption. This is the data that emerges from the latest report Transparency International. There corruption perceived in our country 2023 it is the same as last year. However, since the other countries have now improved their situation, Italy loses a place in the ranking. The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) was overall Rome is the same 56the same as the report published in January 2023, while Italy occupies the country today Ranked 42nd out of 180 countries in the Transparency Ranking: Twelve months ago it was in 41st place.
What does not work – The rating was influenced by a number of issues that continue to negatively impact our system's ability to prevent disease Corruption in the public sector: Give her regulatory deficiencies that regulate the topic Conflict of interest in relations between the public and private spheres, to the lack of discipline in this matter Lobbying and the recent suspension of the beneficial ownership register to curb the anti-money laundering phenomenon.
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The stop for improvements – It therefore begins to become obvious after a certain period of time Improvements Continuously over the last decade – which began with the passage of the law Severino by the government of Mario Monti and achieved the so-called Corrupt sweeper Initiated by the government of Giuseppe Conte, which catapulted Italy up ten places in the 2021 rankings, our country is unable to improve its situation in the fight against corruption. In addition, Transparency itself points out that Italy is among the countries that have recorded the greatest progress from 2012 to 2022, although still below the European average. So what happens to the fight against corruption made in Italy? According to the Minister of Justice Carlo Nordio The problem does not exist and is simply due to the criteria used to create the rankings: “We have declared that I Corruption criteria The perceived ideas do not correspond at all to reality, namely Italy will rise in the international rankings Precisely because we said that the parameters are wrong,” the seal minister recently said in parliament.
And instead, contrary to Nordio's opinion, Italy's index remains stable and its position in the ranking even loses one place. What is noteworthy, despite everything, is the opinion of the leaders of the “Italian branch” of Transparency, which is strangely positive: “The consolidation of our country's score in the CPI 2023 confirms Italy in the group of European countries most committed to.” transparency and the fight against corruption. “A result that is also the result of the application of some regulatory measures on whistleblowing and public procurement,” he claims Michele Calleri, President of Transparency Italia. A reality recently overwhelmed by infighting in top management, which, as the monthly Fq Millennium reported, also led to a warning from the “parent company”: Transparency International threatened to remove the name and brand of the Italian branch.
Fight against corruption stopped in 3/4 of EU countries – Back to the 2023 ranking: In Europe, the CPI 2023 shows that there are efforts to combat corruption stopped or decreases in more than three quarters of the region's countries: from 2012 Of the 31 countries assessed, only 6, including Italy, improved their scores, while 8 recorded a decline. With an average score of 65 out of 100, the European Union remains the highest scoring region in the index the perception of corruption (CPI), but the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures continues to be compromised by the weakening of the control systems of the various branches of government. The CPI 2023 confirms Italy at 17th place among the 27 member states of the European Union.
The rest of the rankings: Denmark first – Globally the CPI is 2023 Denmark remains at the top with 90 points, followed by New Zealand with 87 points and down Finland This results in 85 points Norway with 84 and Singapore with 83. At the bottom of the ranking is Somalia with 11 points Venezuela, Syria and South Sudan with 13 points and Yemen with 16 points. While Western Europe maintains the highest score (65), sub-Saharan Africa (33 points) and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (35 points) are the world regions with the lowest scores. There global average remains unchanged for the 12th consecutive year: over the last decade, 28 countries have made significant progress, while 35 countries have seen their situation worsen. Twenty years after the adoption of United Nations Convention According to Transparency, progress in the fight against corruption remains limited: The CPI 2023 shows that most countries have made little progress in fighting corruption in the public sector in more than a decade. Over two-thirds of countries score below 50 out of 100: More than 80% of the world's population lives in countries with a CPI below the global average of 43.
How the ranking is processed – The Corruption Perception Index, developed annually by Transparency International, classifies countries based on the level of perceived corruption in the public sector 13 analysis tools and surveys aimed at a specialist audience. The final score is determined using a scale from 0 (high level of perceived corruption) to 100 (low level of perceived corruption).