Stefano Feltri
“The Commission would like to be taking the lead on defense policy, but defense remains the domain of Member States”. Thomas Gomart is one of the most influential experts on foreign relations and geopolitics at the EU level: he has been director of the Ifri, Institute Francais de Relationes Internationales, since 2015. An expert in Russian geopolitics and the history of international relations, he has recently published the book L'accélération de l'histoire. Les noeuds géostratégiques d'un monde hors de contrôle ( Éditions Tallandier, 2024).
The first elected president of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, discusses how to fix the decision-making process at the EU level
On September 19, mister Roth gave a lecture to Bocconi students titled “Europe at the Crossroads: Turning Today’s Poly-Crisis Into Tomorrow’s Poly-Opportunity”. Eleanor Spaventa, a professor of European Law at Bocconi and a member of the IEP@BU managing board, chaired the event co-hosted by IEP@BU and the Department of Legal Studies.
Elisabeth Braw, a widely respected expert in international relations and security, is currently a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. Before transitioning to research, she was a journalist, a background that informed her recent book published by Yale University Press, titled Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World.
The climate diplomacy surrounding the COP28 summit has taken center stage in the inaugural session of the working lunch series organized by the Institute for European Policymaking in collaboration with the European Council on Foreign Relations and the SDA Bocconi School of Management.
The former managing director of the ESM discusses the long-term consequences of the Euro crisis and its aftermath.
“You can do some pretty impressive things with AI as a technological platform, but I am not necessarily an optimist because there are also some very negative paths that AI could take as a technology. We have a confluence of factors that make the negative use of this technology much more probable than positive use”, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu argues.
Ralph Ossa, a professor of Economics at the University of Zurich currently on leave, has been appointed as the WTO chief economist in the most challenging time for the organization. In the first World Trade Report since his appointment, Ralph Ossa and his colleagues challenge the prevalent narrative of an inevitable decline of globalization that we have experienced in the last three decades.
On November 9th, the Institute for European Policymaking organized its first in-person event in Brussels: The Impact of IRA on the EU Industrial Policy: Challenging Conventional Wisdom.
On November 13, the Institute for European Policymaking co-organized with IAI, the Istituto per gli Affari Internazionali, an event in Rome dedicated to discussing the implication of the US Industrial Reduction Act on European industries and, specifically, on Italian companies.
As the discussion on the next EU enlargement that might include Ukraine in the bloc proceeds, the support of European citizens to support Ukrainians remains solid but not as solid as in the recent past. Eupinions - a Bertelsman Stigtung project - has monitored how the EU sentiment has evolved towards Ukraine over 18 months.
On the inauguration day of Donald Trump’s second presidency, IEP@BU will host a digital event to discuss the findings of a recent Eupinions survey on the EU-US relationship and their implications. With Catherine De Vries (IEP@BU), Isabell Hoffmann (eupinions, Bertelsmann Stiftung), and Stefano Feltri (IEP@BU)
A few weeks after the pivotal COP29 summit in Azerbaijan, we will examine the implications of the conference’s outcomes and their geopolitical impact. With Serena Fatica (European Commission's Joint Research Centre), Silvia Merler (Algebris and IEP@BU), Roberto Schaeffer (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Partha Sen (New Delhi School of Economics), and Stefano Feltri (IEP@BU)
While past reforms have helped, more are needed to ensure financial stability in a rapidly changing economic environment, with a focus on preventing future crises through better regulation, supervision, and coordination of monetary and financial stability policies.
A new meeting of the series of Working Lunch organized by IEP@BU and ECFR. With Gaia Rubera and Giorgos Verdi.
A pochi giorni dalle elezioni europee dell’8 e 9 giugno, in questo nuovo appuntamento dei dibattiti di geopolitica promossi dall’Institute for European policymaking at Bocconi e dalla rivista Il Grand Continent si discuterà delle ripercussioni globali di un voto cruciale.
Con Marco Bassini, Andrea Colli, Maurizio Ferrera, Mara Morini, Beda Romano, Stefano Feltri.
How has European voters’ attitude, and more specifically Italian voters’, evolved in the last few months? What impact will the war have in Ukraine on the June 2024 European Parliament elections?
With Catherine De Vries, Isabell Hoffmann, and Stefano Feltri.
The June 2024 European Elections will see once again a competition between mainstream parties and populist, or nativist movements. Laurenz Guenther finds that, while policymaking represents the economic attitudes of citizens relatively well, there exist large representation gaps on cultural issues in nearly all European countries.
With Laurenz Guenther (IEP@BU) and Stefano Feltri (IEP@BU).
Le strategie economiche europee danno grande rilevanza al de-risking dalla Cina, ovvero alla riduzione delle dipendenze nei settori strategici, rifiutando però una più ampia separazione delle economie, data l’importanza dei rapporti economici con Pechino, soprattutto per alcuni paesi. Con Agathe Demarais (ECFR), Daniel Gros (IEP@BU), and Stefano Feltri (IEP@BU)
To achieve climate mitigation goals under the Paris Agreement and EU legislation, more ambitious climate policies are being discussed and implemented, bringing climate change to the center of the political arena. Therefore, investigating the interplay between climate change mitigation efforts and political dynamics becomes crucial.
Il terzo e ultimo appuntamento della serie di working lunches realizzati congiuntamente da ECFR Roma, SDA Bocconi e l’Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University.
The TPI is de facto a commitment of the ECB to intervene in markets to curb yields that are not justified by the fundamentals or countries’ fiscal profligacy. However, the TPI lacks of precision in determining which yields are justified and which are not.
With Maria Cannata (Mts Chairwoman), Carlo Favero (IEP@BU Fellow), and Stefano Feltri (IEP@BU communication advisor)
Un webinar in cui discutere dei contenuti del Policy Brief: La politica di bilancio del governo Meloni. Ne parliamo con Lorenzo Bini Smaghi e Silvia Merler, modera Stefano Feltri
Ralph Ossa, a professor of Economics at the University of Zurich currently on leave, has been appointed as the WTO chief economist in the most challenging time for the organization. In the first World Trade Report since his appointment, Ralph Ossa and his colleagues challenge the prevalent narrative of an inevitable decline of globalization that we have experienced in the last three decades.
“You can do some pretty impressive things with AI as a technological platform, but I am not necessarily an optimist because there are also some very negative paths that AI could take as a technology. We have a confluence of factors that make the negative use of this technology much more probable than positive use”, MIT economist Daron Acemoglu argues.