Laura Anello
Italian journalist Laura Anello works at La Stampa’s Palermo bureau, where she specialises in exposing the misappropriation of public funds by the powers that be. She received a 2010 Igor Man Award for her account of the maladministration of the municipality of Favara.
Updated: 8 October 2010
According to a recently released report on the use of billions in EU subsidies, Sicily has spent every last cent of it – not on stopping the island’s development gap, but on pork-barrelling patronage, charges La Stampa.