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The Moment of Truth for Trump’s Protectionist Policies Is Yet to Come

April’s US inflation data will offer the first glimpse of the real impact of the global trade war that the US administration launched on the “Liberation Day”. A commentary by Ignazio Angeloni

Beyond Breakups: Building Smarter Rules to Tackle Big Tech Power

The real challenge is not the size of successful tech firms per se, but how their scale is leveraged — whether to support vibrant ecosystems or to entrench monopolistic control. A commentary by Francesco Decarolis.

Tesauro Silvia

Silvia Tesauro

Why Trump Cannot Win Against the Federal Reserve

Replacing the Chair is not enough to change monetary policy, as Trump would like — namely, to lower interest rates to boost economic growth. A commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Kirkegaard, Jacob Funk

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard

Jacob Funk Kirkegaard is a Senior fellow at Bruegel and a Non-resident Senior fellow with the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). From 2020 to August 2024, he was a senior fellow with the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). From 2013 until 2020, he was a senior fellow at PIIE, based in Washington, DC. He has also worked with the Danish Ministry of Defence, the United Nations in Iraq, and in the private financial sector.

Policy Brief n.41 - Increasing European Productivity, Resiliency, and Defence Production (and How to Pay for It)

To restart growth, the EU needs to focus on productivity and innovation. This does not require hundreds of billions of euros in new expenditure, but rather a sharp focus on the efficiency of existing budgets coupled with innovation-friendly rulemakin...

Tafuro Eleonora

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti

Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti is a senior research fellow at the Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Centre at ISPI. Prior to that, she was a Marie Curie fellow based at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, where she has also pursued her PhD. She has had research stays at the Saint Petersburg State University and at the London headquarters of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She has also worked as a junior researcher at the Brussels office of the Foundation for International Relations and Foreign Dialogue (FRIDE) and as a research assistant at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB). She holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Salento, an MA in European Studies from the University of Roma Tre, and an MRes in International Relations from the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI).

Romeo, Graziella

Graziella Romeo

Graziella Romeo is an Associate Professor at Bocconi University, where she also serves as the stream lead on Democracy, Solidarity, and Governance in Europe within the Bocconi Lab for European Studies (BLEST). In 2023, she joined the Bocconi Equal Opportunities Committee.

She holds a PhD in Constitutional Law from the Università degli Studi di Milano and a JD in Law from Bocconi.

When Will the US Enter Recession?

In his first term, Trump cut taxes before imposing tariffs—this sequencing helped cushion the negative impact of protectionism on US growth. A commentary by Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Cartabia, Marta

Marta Cartabia

Marta Cartabia is Full Professor of Italian and European Constitutional Law at Bocconi University. She is President Emeritus of the Italian Constitutional Court.
She earned a PhD in Law from the European University Institute in Florence in 1993, and graduated magna cum laude in Law from the University of Milan in 1987.
She serves as co-editor-in-chief of Quaderni costituzionali and of the Italian Journal of Public Law.
She was co-president of the International Society of Public Law from 2021 to 2024, and is a member of the Senate of the European Law Institute (ELI).