Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Italy’s Senate Passes Renzi’s Bureaucracy Reform Plan

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi


Reuters, 04/08 16:17 CET

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Senate on Tuesday passed Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s plan to simplify and reduce the cost of the country’s public sector notorious for its inefficiency and corruption.

The Italian bureaucracy is among the least efficient of those ranked by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Italians often spend hours standing in line to resolve even the simplest administrative tasks.

The Senate passed a “delegating law”, a broad outline of reform goals that the government must enact with a series of decrees over the next 18 months. The Chamber of Deputies has already approved the bill first submitted over a year ago.

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Source: Euronews

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