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Transparency denied – La Stampa

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For what reason the government has not predicted that all the data on how the more than 200 billion will be spent euros of the NRP are made public in an open format, therefore easy to consult, by anyone? Why do citizens not have to know who the European money will be awarded to, with what results and at what point the construction sites will be over the next five years? And with what motivation Parliament rejected the request for greater transparency on the Recovery Plan adopting a web platform that has already existed since 2012 with excellent results?

We would have to think all the possible evil. And instead maybe it’s just forgetfulness, superficiality, sloppiness. We are there suddenly forget about the importance of transparency in a democracy. The sense of civic monitoring to increase a community’s trust in institutions and discourage attempts at corruption and various abuses. Yet we know that these things work and do well. We know this and we have established by law that public documents must be open by default. It means automatically open and available without having to ask for it.

When in Milan they ended up with a roundup for Expo 2015 tenders, was a platform that allowed everyone to understand how every penny was spent to recreate lost trust. And the same team a few months later did the same at the Ministry of Transport, allowing us to know in real time at what point each road or railway construction site was. Good practices, which we forgot about during the pandemic and it didn’t go very well.

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In short, it must be sloppiness, in short, it cannot be anything else, to have induced those in charge and in these days the governance of the PNRR is deciding to go back ten years. But if it’s just that, it’s time to fix it. Open that data, allow everyone to verify, democracy works if the palace of power is a glass house. Don’t lock yourself in a bunker.

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