The Editorial

Even the Internet is wasteful. A symbol of innovation, change, and savings, even in the web world, there are companies reportedly wasting enormous amounts of electricity. The American newspaper New York […]

Bicycle thieves. The bike rental service ("bike sharing") for citizens and tourists, which started in Rome with great delay, is now at risk of collapse. The reason? Romans are stealing rented bikes and

The exodus continues and multiplies. Young Italian graduates, once they have earned their degrees, leave our country to find work. Data from the latest survey by Former, the Milan-based Chamber of Commerce's research firm,

Liguria is one of the Italian regions most devastated by construction growth, as demonstrated by the constant landslides in the Cinque Terre area. It is also one of the regions most affected by the rural exodus: in

From the expense report of Franco Fiorito, former leader of the PDL group in the Lazio regional council: 4 euros to the Pineider company for business cards and stationery; 4.200 euros to the Image company which sells

A small public company, which manages the urban water, gas and waste services under a monopoly regime, instead of distributing dividends for the shareholder-municipality to be translated into services for citizens, squanders public money

The Sicilian region truly doesn't know how to spend its money. While the administration is in a hole exceeding €3 billion, sifting through the jungle of documents belonging to the various entities under its control

The Chinese have conquered global leadership in the renewable energy industry. The top three positions in the solar and wind energy industries are always occupied by them: Made in China brands. It's a gigantic pie that sees the

Another 300 million euros are being spent on the Strait of Messina Bridge, which will never be built. The measures adopted by the government last Tuesday include 300 million euros for 2013 to make

There's also waste in prison. It's happening in Lecce, where the juvenile prison is empty: zero inmates. But despite the lack of inmates, the facility is still standing, fully operational, with the associated costs.

I'd like to point out a small but significant initiative: yesterday in Rome, Bread Week began, to avoid wasting bread. With the help of the bakers' association of Rome and its province and Federconsumatori, all bakeries in

In the South, money, jobs, and opportunities are often wasted due to the bureaucratic noose that stifles even good projects. The Purenergy company, a small jewel in the highly innovative wind turbine sector, has presented

Through an article by Sergio Rizzo in the Corriere della Sera, I discovered that the judiciary, as is the case in many sectors of public administration, is shrouded in a gray cloud that undermines its proper functioning:

A small public ditch, just under two square meters, can ruin an investment of tens of millions of euros and create new jobs. This also happens in the waste trap of

Not a day goes by without a golden payout in Italy's murky financial landscape. Mountains of euros handed out to managers who leave their positions without any great regrets, especially with companies teetering on the brink of collapse. Yesterday it was the turn of

Three billion euros, in just nine months, to pay fake poor people, pensions for the dead, and public supplies that reek of bribes. The Guardia di Finanza has compiled a very up-to-date report on waste in 2012.

In Sicily, the railway lines are those of the Bourbons, while in the Aosta Valley, new ones are being built for tourists, but they never come into operation, simply because they are of no use. In the municipality, in

I return to the issue of waste in special-statute local governments, because I consider them a veritable cesspool in Italy's uncontrolled public spending. This time, the judiciary has targeted Luis Durnwalder, president of the Province.

Digging through the Calabrian budget documents, one discovers that the chasm of public finances and waste in regional administrations knows no bounds, from Lombardy to Lazio and all the way to Calabria.