Since the COVID pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the global environment has changed radically as security issues have moved to the forefront in terms of their impact on the global economy. This new world has created difficult challenges for the EU, whose institutions had been designed to operate in a rules-based world very different from today's.

Europe faces two key challenges in the new turbulent world: enhancing defense and economic security, on the one hand, and strengthening sustainable growth and competitiveness, on the other.

The Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy is launching a project on Economy and Security. The aim is to bring together experts from different fields (economics, finance, security studies, international relations) to develop in a flexible way an analysis of the new challenges facing the global system and Europe in particular. This first workshop will lay the groundwork for the development of a discussion on the general theme of the nexus between economy and security in EU strategy.

14.00 Registration and welcome coffee

14.00-14.15 Welcome and opening remarks

Luigi Gubitosi, President, Luiss

Stefano Manzocchi, LEAP

Introduction

Valentina Meliciani, Director, LEAP

14.15-15.45 Panel discussions

14.15 Panel 1: Economics and security in a geopoliticized world: achievements and shortcomings on EU policy

- Marco Buti, Robert Schuman Center

- Nils Redeker, Deputy Director of the Jacques Delors Centre

- Paweł Świeboda, Senior Visiting Fellow EPC

- Andrè Sapir, Senior Fellow Bruegel

Moderated by Paolo Guerrieri, LEAP Senior Fellow

15.45 Coffee break

16.00 Panel 2: Interactions between economics and security and challenges ahead: how to build Europe’s economic and security strategy?

- Raili Adamfeld, Deputy Director DG Grow

- Loukas Tsoukalis, Eliamep

- Martin Sandbu, Financial Times

- Sergio Fabbrini, LEAP

Moderated by Pier Carlo Padoan, LEAP Senior Fellow

17.30-18.00 Closing remarks and discussion