Italy ranked 69th in a corruption perception index by the Transparency International; it is estimated that corruption costs the state about 60 billion euros every year. The corruption causes serious tensions between the citizens and the state, and feeds distrust against the institutions, having an impressive impact on democracy and economy. The technocrat government of Mario Monti did not solve this problem completely. The anti-corruption bill recommended by Monti with the aim to keep convicted criminals out of politics, pushed Berlusconi and his political party to withdrew its support for the government in parliament and call for anticipated election. While the anticorruption bill was not formulated, Monti delivered harsh economic reforms, imposing a drastic austerity programme, raised the retirement age, undermined workers’s rights and pushed up taxes for workers and the middle class. His neoliberal reforms and austerity policies created a public distrust and a potentially explosive situation. The aims of this paper are, from one hand to understand the impact that will have on the future the Monti’s neoliberal reforms on the state apparatus as the state personnel, the police, the judiciary system, the reduced Italy’s welfare system and the reforms of the market labour making it easier for companies to hire and fire, and on the other hand understand why and how these corrosive forces have been stopped.
