Report – RAI Press Office

The appointment with the “Report” investigations is on Sunday 28 April at 8.55pm on Rai 3 and on RaiPlay. In this issue: “The piece of paper” by Luca Bertazzoni, with the collaboration of Marzia Amico. In 2021, the then Minister for Public Administration, Renato Brunetta, launched the “Pa 110 cum laude” protocol which allows public employees to attend degree courses at subsidized prices: 50% is in fact paid by the State. The agreement, however, only concerns public and private universities: telematics remain outside. Stefano Bandecchi, founder of Unicusano, first asked to join, then appealed to the TAR: the sentence established that the Civil Service should have responded, but did not oblige it to sign the agreement. But the new PA minister Paolo Zangrillo immediately extended the agreement also to the telematics of the Multiversity group, Pegaso, San Raffaele and Mercatorum. The State therefore pays 50% of the training of its public employees to private online universities, which in the meantime continue to finance politics.
Following, “Taxi del male” by Giorgio Mottola, with the collaboration of Marco Bova, Greta Orsi. A year ago Giorgia Meloni promised to hunt down smugglers across the globe. However, it is increasingly clear from the data that the people arrested for driving the boats have no connection with the criminal organizations that organize the trafficking. As emerges from the interviews with the protagonists, the alleged smugglers are almost all people forced to drive the boats either through threats or to pay for the journey. The Cutro decree has so far not borne significant fruit but in the meantime attacks against NGOs that save lives at sea continue. Yet, despite political accusations, in the seven years since the first judicial investigations, no connection between non-governmental organizations and traffickers has ever been proven in court. Exclusive documents, however, prove how some leading government officials have exploited to their advantage the misdirections on the NGOs at the basis of some judicial investigations.
And again, “Updating the Duchess’ marble” by Bernardo Iovene, with the collaboration of Lidia Galeazzo and Greta Orsi. In the April 21st episode, the statements by the entrepreneur Alberto Franchi on the fact that if a worker is injured in a quarry he is deficient and that the cause of deaths at work in the last ten years is solely the fault of the workers themselves, created amazement and indignation. Throughout the province of Massa Carrara there was an immediate mobilization of trade unions, institutions and workers, who considered Franchi’s statements offensive and arrogant. Already on Tuesday they gathered in a very crowded assembly outside and inside the Carrara town hall and on Wednesday they declared a strike from work and called a well-attended demonstration. Alberto Franchi, in a note sent to the newspaper La Nazione, apologized to the marble workers and citizens considering his own words inappropriate and said he was sorry that his words were perceived as an attempt to shift the responsibility for safety onto employees. But now the tsunami, as the Quotidiano Nazionale itself defined it, has started and Carrara is in full turmoil this week, between meetings, strikes, demonstrations and the indignation of the families who have suffered deaths in the marble quarries. There was also a question, signed by 12 parliamentarians, asking the Minister of Labor to take initiatives to guarantee both safety for the operators and the containment of the pollution reported in the Report service in the Carrara quarries. And, finally, we urge action to ensure that the extraction materials are finally considered the unavailable assets of the municipalities and put up for tender.
It ends with “The great essays” by Giulia Presutti. With a decree signed on 7 November, the ministers Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and Elisabetta Alberti Casellati appointed an inter-ministerial commission for the reform of the Environmental Code. The fifty experts will be responsible for modifying and updating the legislative decree which contains all the legislation relating to environmental protection. The times are tight: the draft enabling law must be ready by September 2024. Among the members of the Commission, there are representatives of companies that deal with construction and also waste disposal. There is also no shortage of jurists and illustrious lawyers: Teodora Marocco was a lawyer for SNAM, Elisabetta Gardini received the “Top Legal” award in 2019 for the work done with Arcelor Mittal in the acquisition of the ILVA group, Pasquale Frisina was in the past a lawyer for Caltagirone group. With a commission made up like this, what direction will the legislation on authorizations and controls to which companies are subjected take? Together with the jurists, the commission also includes Vincenzo Pepe, founder of the Fare Ambiente association and president, now honorary, of the Giambattista Vico Foundation. In 2020, the Salerno Financial Police subjected the Foundation and its representatives to a preventive seizure of one million eight hundred thousand euros. Pepe is on trial before the Court of Vallo Della Lucania for tax evasion and aggravated fraud against the state. What requirements were taken into consideration when choosing the members of the Commission? And have the Ministers of the Environment and Reforms asked for a review of the ongoing legal proceedings?