The Audit Office promotes the spending review: 10 billion of cuts – The Republic

MILAN – “The containment effort in recent years appears to be very severe,” especially on costs “that most affect the functioning of government and the services rendered citizens “. Underlines the President of the Court of Auditors Raffaele Squitieri, recalling in particular that between 2010 and 2015, spending on compensation of employees in the P.A. It decreased “in absolute terms to more than 10 billion”. The action of fiscal consolidation has also led to “very significant savings” in interest payments on the debt. However “the urgency, sometimes frantic, to make a hard return path to the balance of public finances has made it more difficult to balance this with the needs, also pressing, safeguard vital public policies” as “infrastructure” and “public works.”

the report on the general Account of the State judiciary accounting emphasizes “the exit from the narrow financial emergency and the hope of a more robust economic recovery enabled, recently, to prepare a corrective maneuvers cut which, in the long run, they were showing ‘side’ unsustainable effects. ” A preoccuparte the Court is rather the European framework “less stable” for the pressures that come “not only in Great Britain.”

In particular, the president of coordination of sections joined by the Court of Auditors, Angelo Buscema , notes that the current stage “is dominated by many uncertainties on the international level as on the inside.” Also among the factors of uncertainty “a latent condition of financial instability, connected to the uncertainties arising from widespread concerns about the state of the banking system in Europe.”

In addition to Italian level, “the recovery of GDP growth It is still too modest and, above all, lagging the recovery underway in other major European countries. ” According Buscema “the element of greatest vulnerability Italian”, “the high level of public debt, imposes far more constraints of the EU, a very careful balance” between supporting growth and return the debt, “critical to market expectations “.

Buscema, however, wand the government’s action regarding the reorganization process of” organizational structure “of the public administration” has been exhausting, continuous and messy and, in some cases, it has come to superimpose on similar paths resulting from redefinition of competencies of ministries or by the establishment of institutions and national agencies. also, the reduction of the peripheral network of offices of ministries has so far been too timid and, ultimately, only it affected the offices of top management .

<'p> the conclusion of the accounting judiciary, headed by the Attorney general of the Court of Auditors, Martino Colella, is clear: “the current hypertrophy of institutions and structures, including so-called independent authorities” requires “that active concrete activities pruning of the same, beginning with the cases in which the most obvious is the duplication of responsibilities and the substantial absence of an actual public interest in its survival. “

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