Solid commitment to transparency, legibility of data and monitoring of those sectors most at risk of corruption. In the course of its 3rd Integrity Day, the foreign ministry outlined the path that the efforts of Italian foreign diplomats and officials would take, and announced the modernisation of its counter-corruption operations. The event was hosted at the ministry\u2019s Rome headquarters and featured speeches by, among others, Minister Emma Bonino, Substitute State Prosecutor Paolo Ielo, President of Transparency International Italia Maria Teresa Brassiolo and chief of the foreign ministry\u2019s general secretariat Luigi Vignali. <\/P>
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Prepared for transparency and legibility operation<\/STRONG><\/P> The foreign ministry is prepared for an operation of total \u201ctransparency and legibility\u201d regarding the cost of staff and services: \u201cit is simpler to carry out an operation of this sort, making everything more legible\u201d, and thereby also informing the parliament, according to Minister Emma Bonino. She underscored the ministry\u2019s commitment to providing detailed data on staff and services costs, while also pointing out that the MFA had been \u201cthe first ministry\u201d to present its 2012-2014 3-year programme on transparency and integrity. \u201cThis is not a defensive operation but one merely of transparency\u201d, Bonino explained, recalling how, in this manner, \u201cit will be possible to illustrate that our diplomats cost one-third what those of other European countries do\u201d.<\/P> Modernising within limitations of available resources, says Bonino<\/STRONG><\/P> The minister then outlined the upcoming challenges that the ministry will inevitably be facing with the spending review. Nevertheless, she said that the ministry was pursuing \u201ca phase of modernisation within the limitations of available resources, and seeking to downscale its presence abroad\u201d, with a plan to \u201cstreamline\u201d its diplomatic presence in Europe in order to boost it in areas where the need was greater. \u201cI would keep all the missions open and, indeed, I\u2019d even open more, but as a result of obvious budgetary constraints we cannot keep them all going\u201d, the minister specified.<\/P> Citizen services and visa issuance areas most at risk, says Vignali<\/STRONG><\/P> Going on to the theme of corruption, the minister said that \u201cthe rules are a code of correct behaviour, but individual responsibility is also needed. This essential point makes the difference in fighting corruption\u201d. Luigi Vignali spoke on how the foreign ministry had recently stepped up the internal monitoring of its most at-risk activities: visa issuance and the processing of citizen services\u201d, areas with regard to which the ministry had launched \u201cadvanced efforts at training, with cross-checks, that have led to some elements of success\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Solid commitment to transparency, legibility of data and monitoring of those sectors most at risk of corruption. In the course of its 3rd Integrity Day, the foreign ministry outlined the path that the efforts of Italian foreign diplomats and officials would take, and announced the modernisation of its counter-corruption operations. The event was hosted at […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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