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How Differentiated Integration Can Help the EU to Survive the Next Enlargement
Ferrera Maurizio
Maurizio Ferrera is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milano, as well as founder and President of NASP (Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Sciences), a consortium for doctoral training schools. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the European University Institute, where he later returned as Visiting Schuman Professor and as Director of the European Forum. He currently sits in the Scientific Committee of the Centre d’Etudes Europeennes at Sciences Po, in the Committee of the Skytte Prize in Political Science (Upssala University) and is a corresponding member of the Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. In 2021 the International Political Science Association awarded to Maurizio Ferrera the “Mattei Dogan” prize for High Achievement in Political Science.
Ferrera has mainly worked on welfare states and European integration. His latest book is Politics and Social Visions. Ideology, Conflict and Solidarity in the EU. Since 2004 he has been a columnist of Il Corriere della Sera.
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De Vries Catherine
Catherine De Vries has ben President of the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi University until December 2025. She is passionate about academic service and leadership. In addition, she cares deeply about political science research and teaching. She examines some of the key challenges facing the European continent today, such as Euroscepticism, political fragmentation, migration and corruption. Currently, she is working on research project (LOSS), funded through a Consolidator grant by the European Research Council, which examines the conditions under which economic hardship affects support for socially conservative political agendas.
Throughout her career, she has published several books in addition to a large set of research articles. Next to research, she regularly provides commentary in newspaper outlets and is a columnist for the Dutch Het Financieele Dagblad. She also serves as the scientific advisor for eupinions funded by the Bertelsmann Foundation, as a member of European Integration Committee of the Dutch Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. For her societal impact, she was selected a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum in 2013. In 2014, she was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion Section of the American Political Science Association, and in 2015, the Sophonisba Breckinridge Award for Best Paper in Women and Politics of the Midwest Political Science Association.