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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday launched a drive to stamp out corruption in the civil service. The premier said Italy had a longstanding problem with corruption among civil servants, partly because of the size of its state administration. ''There is a price to be paid for a sprawling, bureaucratic and bloated public administration like ours,'' he said, unveiling a new anti-corruption task force. ''Corruption has age-old roots and has taken on a pathological and endemic form which cannot be tolerated and which we aim to root out,'' the premier told a news conference with Civil Service Minister Renato Brunetta. Berlusconi said the government's new Anti-Corruption and Transparency Service would aim, among other things, to ''effectively map out corruptions risks and carry out an in-depth probe into European Union... [read full story]
