Over 80% of the Italian municipalities declared in financial difficulty in the last five years are located in three southern regions: Campania, Calabria and Sicily. This is what emerges from the report to Parliament by the Court of Auditors on municipalities in crisis situations. «The critical aspect – say the accounting judges – is the strong territorial concentration: Sicily, Calabria and Campania account for 63.6% of the overall crisis procedures activated and 80.4% of the declared failures».
In Calabria 54% of the Municipalities involved
Specifically, the report further underlines, in Calabria 54% of the Municipalities have experimented at least one procedure, in Sicily 41% and in Campania 39%. «In the most affected territories – we read in the document – the crises cannot be traced back only to the management of the single entity, but reflect economic, social, organizational and institutional factors that affect the entire multilevel system, with a strong heterogeneity of regional interventions, including financial support, technical assistance, prevention funds and autonomous monitoring systems».