Rome in push to decriminalise abuse of office despite corruption fears
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Rome in push to decriminalise abuse of office despite corruption fears
Euractiv.com with AFP
https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/rome-in-push-to-decriminalise-abuse-of-office-despite-corruption-fears/
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Italy’s hard right government is scrapping the crime of abuse of office, setting Rome on a collision course with Brussels over a law supporters say is essential to fighting corruption.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition claims the offence deters mayors from taking tough decisions and bogs down the justice system, because most investigations into abuse of office come to nothing.
But in a country notorious for mafia infiltration of the social, economic and political spheres, particularly at a local level, some experts claim getting rid of it will make it harder to investigate and convict criminals.
The Senate’s Justice Committee took the first step Tuesday (9 January) towards removing the abuse of office crime, which exists in 25 out of 27 European Union countries, and which Brussels would like to extend bloc-wide.
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Applegrove:
That is how you entrench autocracy. With corruption only those who participate in graft get power. Honest people are left struggling. It is a structural change where people with admirable characters (except for those who experienced predjudice) used to be the ones to rise to positions of responsibility.
