The Foundation Giacomo Brodolini (FGB) provides high-quality research on growth, employment, and the welfare state to inform policy across Italy and Europe. For the EMPN project, FGB collaborates with Sapienza University of Rome’s Department of Economics and Law, focusing on industrial policy, the energy transition, and the Italian economy, particularly regarding Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP).
This partnership is led by Dario Guarascio, associate professor at Sapienza University of Rome and affiliate of Sant’Anna School (Pisa) and INAPP, and Annamaria Simonazzi, emeritus professor at Sapienza and President of FGB.
How can fiscal rules reward policies that strengthen growth and resilience instead of penalising them?
AI is set to amplify regional divides unless Europe invests in R&D, skills, and innovation capacity where it’s needed most.
What if the Commission’s debt models underestimate consolidation costs and overstate growth?
Can Italy escape a model that locks its firms, regions, and workers into low productivity?
How can Europe reduce dependence and volatility while avoiding new core–periphery divides?
Countries that invest in skills, innovation, and infrastructure will gain from AI. Others risk falling behind.
Can Europe escape an economic model that makes openness a source of fragility?
Investing in care boosts female labour participation, yet unequal structures risk reopening the gap.
Can Europe fight inflation without fixing its dependencies?
Will Europe’s green transition narrow divides or deepen them?
Can Europe turn wartime relief into long-term resilience?
Europe’s path to clean energy runs through China’s factories. Can policy close the gap?
Robots create jobs in the North, not the South. Can Europe close that gap?
Can Italy’s fiscal policy turn investment into lasting transformation?