C. Bastasin: Germany’s economic weakness may help strengthen the European Union

Germany’s economic weakness, highlighted by the recession in 2023 and the uncertain outlook for the current year, ...

January 30, 2024

R. Perissich: How Europe should prepare for a second Trump term (and hope it will not happen)

It has already been a front-page subject for many months. It is now becoming an obsession. The subject is the upcoming U...

January 25, 2024

C. Bastasin: Inflation, inequality and divergence in electoral year 2024

In past years, I tried on several occasions and through various publications to highlight the importance of a conceptual...

January 22, 2024

C. Bastasin – Conceptually flawed and politically risky after the transitory period: The new proposed European economic governance reform

If governments were angels, we would not need rules. However, in an imperfect world even rules cannot be perfect. In thi...

December 31, 2023

L. Panella: The Cost of non-Europe

In June 2024, millions of citizens will participate in shaping the future of European democracy and its political priori...

December 13, 2023

C. Bastasin: Cambiare il freno al debito tedesco?

In queste pagine, mostreremo la perdita di credibilità della norma costituzionale sul freno all’indebitamento che la ...

December 4, 2023

L. Moretti, D. Di Carlo – Italy: Banking on the wrong tax

On August 7, Italy’s right-wing Government led by Giorgia Meloni announced a controversial windfall tax on the alleged...

November 20, 2023

C. Bastasin: Le conseguenze europee della sentenza della Corte costituzionale tedesca

Con una sentenza pronunciata il 15 novembre scorso, il secondo Senato della Corte costituzionale federale tedesca ha dic...

November 19, 2023

C. Bastasin – New wine in an old bottle: an update on the revision of EU fiscal rules

In the next two meetings, on November 9 and December 8, Ecofin (The council of the finance ministers of the EU countries...

October 30, 2023

S. Diessner, C. A. Petit – Strengthening the Democratic Accountability of the EU’s New Industrial Policy through Parliamentary Oversight

EU industrial policymaking involves political choices and trade-offs with far-reaching distributive consequences. This w...

November 14, 2024

D. Guarascio, J.Reljic, A. Simonazzi: United in diversity? EU core-periphery divided at the time of the green transition

The European Union (EU) is at a crossroads, faced with the pressing need to accelerate the green transition in response ...

November 7, 2024

P. Dermine, M. Patrin: Legal Foundations for a New EU Industrial Policy

The legal framework of industrial policy under the EU Treaties is disunited. The EU’s competence in the industrial fie...

October 29, 2024

C. Bastasin – Giorgia Meloni should rethink her European Strategy: An assessment of Italy’s government two years after its inauguration

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni faces a choice: whether to become Giorgia Mercher – an Italian combination o...

September 13, 2024

F. Bontadini, V. Meliciani, M. Savona, A. L. Wirkierman – Nearshoring and Farsharing in Europe within the Global Economy: Regional Trends, Structural Components and Sectoral Patterns

This paper documents recent trends in the geographical distribution of value added across Global Value Chains (GVCs). By...

August 29, 2024

A. Fabrizi, C. Fiorelli, V. Meliciani – Green research networks and environmental innovation: The role of regional absorptive capacity

This paper examines how R&D investment enhances absorptive capacity, facilitating effective knowledge transfer withi...

August 6, 2024

A. Fabrizi, C. Fiorelli, V. Meliciani: The Role of Green Networks for Environmental Innovation in European Regions

This paper investigates the role of green research networks in green innovation capabilities (proxied by green patents) ...

July 30, 2024

V. Termini – The climate emergency and the turning point of sustainable growth: a way forward for the economic discipline

The  new millennium began facing three transitions: a hegemonic transition, an ecological transition and an economi...

July 23, 2024

L. Codogno – Italy’s Superbonus 110%: Messing up with demand stimulus and the need to reinvent fiscal policy

Since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-2009, there has been flourishing literature on the role of fiscal policy in st...

July 15, 2024