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A Political Earthquake in the Netherlands and What It May Mean

Whatever comes out of this election result, Dutch politics has become more volatile and complex in the coming years. This will likely have consequences not only for the Netherlands but also for the EU

EU, US, UK: A Tale of Three Inflations

The US and the euro area have similar headline inflation rates, but very different drivers. In the US, inflation is mainly driven by housing costs. By contrast in the euro area energy now provides an important negative element, that is offset to a la...

Europeans Deserve Better

The way the EU Commission and governments envisage launching future enlargements without strengthening the EU in parallel could have negative consequences for all Europeans, in the EU and in candidate countries.

The Global Race to Regulate AI: Biden’s Executive Order Spillover Effects on the EU AI Act

On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration issued the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence Executive Order 14110, which marks a key development in the global race to regulate AI

The ECB and the TPI: How to Measure the Fragmentation Risk in the Eurozone Sovereign Bond Market

We use the pricing mechanism of perpetual loans by our proposed European Debt Agency to determine a dynamic yield corridor that captures idiosyncratic risk and filters liquidity risk.

Policy Brief n.6 - Are Central Banks behind the curve (again)?

There is no doubt that monetary policy reacted late to the rising inflationary pressures experienced in 2021-22. The major central banks subsequently caught up rapidly and hiked interest rates at an unprecedented pace. However, as inflation reached i...

Ferrera Maurizio

Maurizio Ferrera

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.

How Differentiated Integration Can Help the EU to Survive the Next Enlargement

The EU should be ready to offer candidate countries at least participation in the single market, partial access to the EU's budget, and observer status in EU institutions by 2030.

Measuring Term Premia for the Euro Area - Updated Version

The dynamics of nominal government bond yields at different maturities play a central role in shaping the response of the real economy to monetary and fiscal policy interventions. Yields can be decomposed into two unobservable components: the sequenc...

Is the EU Strategic Autonomy Consistent with Development Goals?

We identify specific industrial products that are projected to be in high demand in the EU and can be realistically produced given North African countries’ existing capabilities. Specializing in these products, North African countries can diversify t...