86 Global News Post 1: Corruption in Italy

The Local it: Italy still seen as one of Europe’s most corrupt countries

by The Local Italy

This article shares about Italy’s corruption rate among 180 countries in 2021. Italy ranked as 42/100 (0 means highest corrupt; 100 means clean), which has brought Italy to the worst corrupt county in the European region. Italian citizens believe it parliament and political parties in the country are the two institutions with the worst corrupt.

The article discussed the overall corruption in Italy and also compared it with other countries. It has given some negative impression for the citizens about their country at the beginning of the article with the title. Then, the author commends the improvement in the corruption score for Italy by showing the timeline score throughout the years for Italy. After showing the improvement evident in the article, the author has mentioned the world’s least corrupt countries such as Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, and Germany to show that Italy still needs more improvement. Lastly, the article mentioned how Covid-19 was being used in a political way to limit people’s freedom for any social movements.

This article mentioned Italy’s corruption score continues to improve by including images and quotes from Transparency International. The article provided the image of Italy’s score throughout the time from 2012 to 2021. It also shows the score is continually increasing since 2014. Transparency International also mentioned the recovery of the corrupt is due to the growing attention in society.