Il Consiglio d’Europa rivela che il governo della Spagna non ha implementato “in modo soddisfacente” nessuna delle sue 19 raccomandazioni sulla corruzione e l’integrità

The Greco, the Group of States against Corruption of the Council of Europe, “concludes that Spain has not satisfactorily implemented or addressed satisfactorily any of the 19 recommendations contained in the evaluation report of the fifth round.” And this fifth round addresses “prevention of corruption and promotion of integrity in central governments, and law enforcement agencies.”

This means that the Government has not implemented any of these 19 recommendations from the Council of Europe, which is the relevant international organization based in Strasbourg and aims to “promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in Europe and worldwide.” This is stated in one of the two reports that this institution publishes today with, moreover, over 16 months of delay because the Government had blocked it.

This led, a few weeks ago, to the President of Greco, David Meyer, demanding that the Government lift the veto on the document. And now that it is made public, what is revealed is the total non-compliance by the Government. The recommendations range from “strengthening the current regime applicable to advisors, subjecting them to transparency and integrity requirements equivalent to those applicable to high-level executive personnel”; to “introducing rules on how high-level executive personnel engage with lobby groups and other third parties seeking to influence legislative and other government work.”

In addition to these, there are others on the independence of the Transparency and Good Governance Council, the adoption of codes of conduct for senior executive personnel, or that “the Police and the Civil Guard carry out a strategic risk assessment of areas and activities prone to corruption to identify emerging problems and threats.”

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/greco-publishes-two-reports-assessing-spain-s-progress-in-implementing-its-anti-corruption-recommendations

Council of Europe website if people don’t trust El Mundo

This is so no matter who governs. Here he is a mathematician, every 4 years there is a corruption scandal in the Government and there is always a guy with a nickname related to hair (the mustache, the wig, the gel…) and whose job is to be a “getter” who ends up singing the Traviata in court but in the end everything ends in indignation

How would our government implement those when they are currently being investigated for corruption?

The more I see stuff like this the more I wonder how did Poland avoid a lot of that corruption