Events
Upcoming IEP@BU Events
What happens when powers no longer agree on the rules, or even on what international order should look like? A conversation with Mark Leonard (ECFR) and Nathalie Tocci (IEP Bocconi), moderated by Stefano Feltri (IEP Bocconi).
Following the 2025 Bocconi University - European Commission (DG EMPL) joint event on anti-poverty policies, this 2026 edition will focus on how the Strategy’s goals can translate into concrete actions to prevent and address poverty.
The global order is fracturing under the pressure of great-power rivalry, war, economic coercion, technological dependence, energy insecurity and climate disruption. As the US-led rules-based order weakens, middle powers can either submit to a world of competing empires or work together to renew international law and multilateral cooperation.
For Europe, this choice is existential: it can remain strategically dependent or act collectively to promote a more open, plural and non-imperial order based on autonomy, cooperation and mutual restraint. Achieving this goal requires more than rhetoric. Europe must strengthen its institutions, investments and innovative capacity across four critical domains: energy and climate, defence and security, trade and economic coercion, and technology and industrial policy.
The IEP Annual Event will examine whether Europe can turn its vulnerabilities into resilience and strategic autonomy, helping middle powers move from fragmentation towards a renewed global order.
Past Events
Bocconi Alumni Brussels welcomes Paloma Lopez-Garcia, Director of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University (IEP@BU)
A conversation with Alexander Gabuev (Director, Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center ) and Nathalie Tocci, moderated by Stefano Feltri.
Un incontro con l'ambasciatrice di Francia e il Presidente Onorario di IEP per esplorare le convergenze e le priorità dei due Paesi su sicurezza, difesa, politica industriale ed energia.
Una conversazione con Simonetta Di Pippo, intervistata da Stefano Feltri
The Institute for European Policymaking @Bocconi University; the CEPR RPN in Geoeconomics and Security; and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy organize the 2nd edition of the Junior Workshop in Geoconomics and its Best Paper Award for junior researchers.
A seminar on UK-EU dynamic alignment, covering trade, energy, dispute resolution and the UK’s role in shaping EU rules.
A Conversation with Ferit Hoxha, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania
Russia’s war economy, sanctions, Ukraine, and Europe’s deterrence challenge. A webinar with Bill Browder, recently appointed IEP Bocconi Non-Resident Fellow, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, and Nathalie Tocci, IEP Bocconi Senior Fellow.
Una conversazione con Marta Cartabia, intervistata da Stefano Feltri
The political rationale for the BEV tariffs was the narrative that subsidized Chinese BEVs were threatening the European automotive industry. Is this narrative correct? Does the EU automotive industry need protection?