Court Conti: Squitieri “Corruption risk for growth” – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

Court Conti: Squitieri "Corruption risk for growth" – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

14:11 February 10, 2015

(AGI) – Rome, February 10 – Corruption produces “devastating effect” on growth jeopardizing the economic recovery. The warning comes on the occasion of the inauguration of the judicial year 2015 from the President of the Court of Auditors, Raffaele Squitieri. “The crisis prepares a fertile ground to phenomena of maladministration and corruption” and these factors, in turn, jeopardize the possibility ‘of “a return to levels satisfactory growth”, highlighted Squitieri during the ceremony in which This was the head of state Sergio Mattarella.
“It ‘clear that the persistence of long-conditions of low growth, if not stagnation, in addition to multiply the difficulties’ management of the budget and, therefore, implementation of remedial measures to address the crisis, prepare a favorable ground to phenomena of mismanagement and corruption, “said Squires, underlining that” the economic cris is and corruption go hand in hand in a vicious circle, in which the one and ’cause and effect of the other. The research, sometimes frantic, strategies to exit the crisis and exacerbated the competition for access to limited resources, favor, in fact, the practice of illicit routes and activities ‘illegal’. The crisis and the recurrence of phenomena of maladministration and corruption “that we thought we had left behind,” added the president of the Court of Auditors, “are likely to crack, today, not only the relationship between citizens and the ruling class of the country, but the same hope of being able to draw new impetus by public action for the return of satisfactory levels of growth. “According
Squitieri” research, sometimes frantic, exit strategies from the crisis and competition for access exasperated with limited resources, favor, in fact, the practice of illicit routes and activities ‘illegal’. This& #8217; pours, highlighted, “of course, and negatively, on the efficiency of the overall system, producing devastating effects on the allocation of financial and human resources and the creation of conditions conducive to the attivita ‘business and therefore the growth of’ economy. “
Another danger, according to the president of the supreme magistracy accounting, and ‘that represented by an addiction to malfeasance. “The danger more ‘serious for the community’ and ‘a resigned addiction to malfeasance, seen as an evil without remedy,” he stressed. “We can not allow this to happen – he added – we can not let that take force the idea of ​​a society ‘unable to make collective decisions, to pursue, at the level of public administration, concrete objectives and to ensure a system of services and efficient sustainable “.