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Alessandro Zattoni

United in diversity: towards a European managerial model

Thirty years after the creation of the single market, a European managerial model has yet to emerge. However, cultural diversity is a valuable resource that enriches European companies and organizations. The fusion of these different cultural backgrounds into a common destiny is, in fact, the motto of the European community: united in diversity.Whether they are politicians, managers, or academics, ...

Carlo Altomonte

Market, security, energy: the Draghi report and the future of Europe

The global landscape is shifting: what lies ahead for the European Union economically and politically?Since World War II, the EU has been a globalization success story, leveraging key strengths to become a global export leader. Recent disruptions - most notably the war in Ukraine - have challenged its foundations, undermining the core pillars of competitiveness: market, security, and energy.Mario ...

Matteo Di Castelnuovo

AI and energy: the hidden challenge of data centers

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence brings not only technological but also significant energy-related implications. According to the International Energy Agency, data centers – the physical backbone of AI – could consume up to 3% of global electricity by 2030, an amount comparable to the current demand of an entire industrialized country. Yet these digital hubs could also become enablers ...

Simonetta Di Pippo

More space for Earth: the future of the Space Economy

The new space race is no longer just about satellites and lunar missions: it is an ecosystem that brings together artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, and international diplomacy, with a global market value already exceeding $600 billion – and projected to surpass $1.8 trillion by 2035. Every euro invested in this sector generates value back on Earth, turning the cosmos into a vital ...

Stefano Caselli

From Savings to Development: The New Frontier of Growth

With 5.3 trillion euros in financial assets, Italy has the potential to transform its economic future. Overcoming the debt narrative and leveraging these resources for true development is a crucial challenge. Financial education, structural investments, coherent fiscal policies, and new financial products are the pillars on which to build a bridge between savings and the real economy. Opening the ...

Gianmarco Ottaviano

Public Goods Need Europe

There are at least three wrong ideas that need to be cleared up to begin a constructive debate on the role of the European Union at this point in history. The first is that the important decisions in the EU are made in Brussels without any involvement of the Member States. The second is that the decisions made in Brussels have no democratic basis since they are made by bureaucrats not elected by the ...

Donato Masciandaro

Illegal Capital Flows, Europe's Holes

The case of Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark, was the sixth time in just a few months that a bank belonging to a Member State of the European Union was implicated in the laundering of dirty money: Estonia, Germany, Holland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Malta, strictly in alphabetical order. And that’s not all: in January, the European Commission issued its first recommendation on the so-called ...

Stefano Caselli

Capital Markets A Key Asset for Growth

The coming months will be crucial for thinking about how to shape the European Single Market and how to make the European Union competitive with other economies. The values at stake, compared to the size of the United States on the one hand and China on the other, would be enough to justify the reasons for accelerating the path of political integration. This would enable the economic systems of the ...

Francesco Billari

Building the Future with Demography

Think future, build future. The strategies of companies, institutions, and corporations are based on approaches that project today onto tomorrow. Among these, one approach remains underutilized: the analysis of change through the lens of demography. Although demographic change may seem slow and almost imperceptible, this very phenomenon is one of the most powerful forces shaping our economic, social, ...