Italian Premier Matteo Renzi said
on Friday that Italy's current system for tenders is so
complicated that corruption can infiltrate the process, speaking
at a press conference presenting the government's new
public-tender code.
"We have a system that starts from 36,000 contracting
authorities, 14 years on average to complete a public work. In
these 14 years the downtime due to bureaucracy weighs more than
a third: four years of bureaucracy in 14 years. It's a ghastly
thing," Renzi said.
"Not only: the system is so tortuous and complicated that
corruption lurks in the subterfuges of the bureaucracy," he
said.
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