An Italian civil servant is a non-story compared to the £37bn given to the UK's private sector to run a poor-to-nonexistent COVID test and trace scheme.
For comparison the entire annual budget of the NHS is £44bn. And the government refused to increase the pay of doctors and nurses who have more or less singlehandedly held the NHS together through COVID.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/19/covid-19-test-and-trace...
Among other stories. That's just the worst of an appalling raft of cash-for-cronies handouts.
But the BBC rarely publishes news about Europe at all. And when it does it's often negative.
Not only do we have a story about an Italian civil servant, but also - coincidentally - there's news about Malta's EU cash-for-passports scheme.
Which is more or less identical to the UK's cash-for-passports scheme. But less expensive.
The Tories would love to dismantle the BBC, rather than controlling it, but both parties like the grip it gives on propaganda.
1) BBC has a policy of not going hard against the sitting government, this seems to be true regardless of who's in charge.
2) BBC is a large organisation, they have parts which are more pro-tory and others which are more anti-tory, but overall the anti-tory stuff will be a bit more curbed due to point 1.
3) David Cameron stacked the board with pro-tory people, this has little effect on the actual stories since the board has no direct involvement, but this could lead to a tory bias in some cases.
citation on point 3: https://www.ft.com/content/7ba884c2-176d-11e6-b197-a4af20d55...