Italy – the European Commission is now taking a closer look
(KL) – Ever since Giorgia Meloni has come to power in Italy, her Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has been working on a judicial reform that is supposedly and commendably [...]
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Italy – Impunity for abuse of office and traffic of influence?
(KL) – The brazenness with which the Italian government is attempting to push through impunity for the country’s corrupt members of “il sistema” is [...]
European money for the Mafia (11)
(Kai Littmann) – On 6 September 2023, the Italian parliament was supposed to vote on a law that would shorten the statute of limitations for trials, as well as [...]
Series (9) – European money for the mafia!
(Kai Littmann) – During the six months we spent investigating the “Rosario Leo Files”, we discovered the links that exist in Italy between the economy, the judicial [...]
Series (8) – European money for the Mafia?
(Kai Littmann) – In the first seven articles of this series, we have described the gas pipeline projects in Italy, the Italian judicial system, the functioning of the [...]
Series (7) – European money for the Mafia?
(Kai Littmann) – After months of research, we had sent six questions to the European Commission in order to better understand how it was possible that over decades, [...]
Series (6): European money for the Mafia?
(Kai Littmann) – As long as there are men like Nicola Gratteri, there is hope that Italy can one day defeat organised crime. For three decades, the Prosecutor General [...]
Series (5) – European money for the Mafia?
(Kai Littmann) – The Constitutional Charter states that the Italian justice system functions like in all democratic countries. There are courts, courts of appeal, the [...]
Series (4): European Money for the Mafia?
(Kai Littmann) – Italy is the arrival point for natural gas from Azerbaijan (TAP, Trans Adriatic Pipeline) and Africa (TMP, Trans Mediterranean Pipeline). The TAP [...]
Series (3): European money for the Mafia?
(Kai Littmann) – The history of Italy is also the history of organised crime organisations. The first mafia structures emerged at the time of the Muslim conquest, when [...]