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.

2:00 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Luigi Gubitosi - President, Luiss University

Stefano Manzocchi - Deputy Rector for Research, Luiss University

Introduction

Valentina Meliciani, Dean, Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy

2:15 pm Economics and Security in a Geopoliticized World: Achievements and Sho comings on EU Policy

Marco Buti - Professor, Robe Schuman Center

Nils Redeker - Deputy Director, Jacques Delors Centre

Maria Joao Rodrigues - President, FEPS

Andrè Sapir - Senior Fellow, Bruegel

Moderator

Paolo Guerrieri - Senior Fellow, Luiss Institute for European Analysis and Policy

3:45 pm Coffee break

4:00 pm Interactions between Economics and Security and Challenges Ahead: How to Build Europe’s Economic and Security Strategy?

Outi Slotboom - Deputy Director, DG Grow

Loukas Tsoukalis - President, Eliamep

Martin Sandbu - European Economic Commentator, Financial Times

Sergio Fabbrini - Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance, Luiss University

Moderator

Pier Carlo Padoan - President, UniCredit S.p.A.

5:30 pm Closing Remarks and Discussion

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Presentation by Outi Slotboom