robert schuman centre for advanced studies brochure 2010-2011

2010-2011

This brochure gives an overview of the RSCAS activities and fellowships.

For further and more detailed information, please visit our website:www.eui.eu/RSCAS/

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The European University Institute was founded in 1972 by the original Member States of the European Community, now the European Union, in order to provide advanced academic training for Ph.D. students and to promote research at the highest level.

I have been Director of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) since 2006. The Centre was created in 1992 to develop inter-disciplinary and compara-tive research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society.

The academic staff of the Centre includes joint chair holders who are also professors in the teaching departments of the Institute (Law, Economics, History and Civilization, and Social and Political Sciences); programme directors; part-time professors; research fellows and academic assistants working on the projects and programmes of the Centre; senior fellows; and visiting scholars. In addition to its own faculty, the Centre hosts a large post-doctoral fellowship programme including Jean Monnet and Marie Curie fellows as well as other publicly and privately funded fellows, and academic and non-academic visitors. The Centre has a core administrative staff and is funded from a variety of sources, including various EU programmes, national agencies, private foundations and the business community.

Our main objectives are to produce high quality research; to collaborate with other centres of research excellence; to provide opportunities for young scholars working in our core research areas; and to promote dialogue with the world of practice.

The Centre hosts research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union. Currently, the core themes are:

European Institutions, Governance, and Democracy; Migration; Economic and Monetary Policy; Competition Policy and Market Regulation; Energy Policy; International and Transnational Relations.

You will find details of the Centre’s research agenda set out in the following pages, and the most up-to-date information on our web site.

Stefano BartoliniDirector of the RSCAS

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Introduction

Our main objectives are to

produce high quality research;

to collaborate with other

centres of research excellence;

to provide opportunities for

young scholars working in

our core research areas; and

to promote dialogue with the

world of practice.


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Research on the political and legal design and the policy performance of European institutions has long been at the core of the Centre’s agenda. Past and present research examines issues relevant to the debate on EU institutional and constitutional reform; evolution and experimentation in European governance; development of constitutional rights and values in the European Union; and issues of democracy and citizens’ participation in EU institutions. A recurrent question is the study of tensions between the logic of law and that of politics.

The first pillar of research is EU institutional and constitutional reform, an issue of long-standing interest to the RSCAS. Our research focus continually adjusts to developments in the reform process. At the moment and in the coming years research will deal with alternative solutions to the EU institutional design reform after the failure of the national ratification processes of the draft Constitution, as well as the substantive content of reform. The Centre also investigates intentional negotiated change (through Treaty reorganisation and revision), as well as endogenous institutional change arising through the development of informal rules and the selection of lower-order rules. In this latter area a project funded by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) deals with ‘Interstitial Institutional Change’ and investigates institutional change in the European Union which takes place between the highly salient formal treaty revisions. The SIEPOL project (Seclusion and Inclusion in the European Polity: Institutional Change and Democratic Practices), directed by Adrienne Héritier and Peter Mair investigates an increasingly widespread yet understudied phenomenon in European politics: the shift of legislative decision-making from public, inclusive arenas to informal, secluded ones. More specifically, it explores whether, why, how and with which consequences EU legislation is increasingly ‘fast-tracked’ under the co-decision procedure and passed as ‘early agreements’. The project is co-funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council

During the past years, the second pillar, that of governance, has focused in particular on new modes of governance in Europe, with the pan-European NEWGOV FP6 integrated project, which examined the transformation of governance in and beyond Europe by mapping, evaluating and analysing new modes of governance. This project ended in 2008. A new programme on Global Governance started its activities in 2009; a full description of it is found below under the research theme ‘International and Transnational Relations’.

The third pillar focuses on democracy, particularly on European democracy. Many studies and research projects at the RSCAS in the past have taken up the challenges and opportunities for democracy in Europe, both at the national and regional levels. Moreover, ever closer attention was given to the development of democratic institutions and processes at the EU level. This latter focus has become particularly salient since the 2005 referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, which bolstered the attention of policy makers and academics towards citizens’ participation in EU integration. Under the Seventh Framework Programme the Centre has obtained funding for PIREDEU, a design study to set up an infrastructure for research on citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the EU. With the creation of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO), coordinated by Alexander Trechsel, the RSCAS consolidates the scientific knowledge and policy relevant know-how on EU democracy. Furthermore, EUDO actively engages in research, experimentation, and dissemination activities on issues relating to EU democracy.

Key facultyRSCAS: Stefano Bartolini, Adrienne Héritier, Miguel Maduro, Bruno de WitteEUI Departments: Rainer Bauböck, Mark Franklin, Peter Mair, Alexander Trechsel (SPS), and Fabrizio Cafaggi (LAW)

Past and present research

examines issues relevant to

the debate on EU institutional

and constitutional

reform; evolution and

experimentation in European

governance; development

of constitutional rights and

values in the European Union;

and issues of democracy and

citizens’ participation in

EU institutions.

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European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO)EUDO is an interdisciplinary academic platform for networking, databases and, cru-cially, the public dissemination of scientific research on EU democracy. The Observa-tory is particularly interested in the increasing tensions between the need for legitimacy and efficient problem solving mechanisms that has characterized recent EU history. EUDO is composed of four Observatories responsible for data and documentation gathering and directed by EUI professors in conjunction with external experts. The Observatory on Public Opinion, Political Elites and the Media focuses on the analysis of the attitudes and preferences of electorates, the media and elites, and aims to measure the way in which these converge or diverge. The Observatory on Political Parties and Representation is devoted to the study of European parties as representative channels, agenda setters and gatekeepers on the uncertain road towards a fully-fledged and ef-fective Euro-party system. The Observatory on Institutional Change and Reforms is devoted to reforms and adaptations in the current institutional EU set-up, particularly those reforms and adaptations that are most likely to foster popular acceptance and legitimacy for the Union. The Observatory on Citizenship, finally, is devoted to the study and development of citizenship in the European Union and its member states and the impact of citizenship on democratic inclusion and participation.

In addition to the four Observatories, the EUDO platform has three further compo-nents: the Dissemination Conference, the EUDO Web forum and the EUDO Training Platform. The Dissemination Conference takes place on a yearly basis in order to share research results and policy expertise in the field of EU democracy. It brings together representatives of each of the EUDO Observatories as well as other experts, policy-makers, civil society and media representatives. The first conference, which was also the EUDO Launch Conference, took place in December 2009. Experts from academia and the policy-making community gathered and exchanged their views on the most pressing issues regarding EU democracy, while also formally launching the EUDO platform. The EUDO Web forum is the major communication platform for EUDO in its interaction with the wider community. It adopts a ‘proactive’ approach to the dissemination of findings so as to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue while reaching out to policy-makers and politicians, as well as to civil society organizations. The first component of the Webforum, the ‘EUDO Café’, launched its first debate in April 2010 and constitutes a major communication platform of EUDO in its interaction with the wider community. It hosts debates among internal and external EUDO experts on selected, EU democracy-relevant topics. Finally, the EUDO Training platform runs summer schools and hosts workshops, seminars and lectures by experts from academia and the policy-making community. EUDO Training offers junior and senior fellows the possibility to complete their training and research skills with EUDO. In this regard, several Max Weber, Jean Monnet and Marie Curie fellows at the EUI and the RSCAS are closely involved in EUDO’s activities.

In addition to these ‘founding’ platform components, EUDO is currently developing the EUDO Data Centre, which will offer a broad range of research results and data in an innovative and easily accessible way. The Data Centre will be a web-based repository for the distribution and dissemination of quantitative and qualitative data and research results produced or acquired by EUDO projects and one of the goals of the EUDO Data Centre is to promote the interoperability among datasets. Furthermore, EUDO is currently streamlining its efforts to become a leading and widely known hub in EU democracy research. It is the intention that EUDO will be one of the leading sources academics, policy-makers and ordinary citizens turn to, when they look for


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information and research on democracy in the EU. To do so, among other things, the inter- and multi-disciplinary character of EUDO will be fostered and used to create even more synergies and to conduct common research projects and studies as well as to submit common funding applications. Linked to these internal efforts will be external activities, such as inviting more external scholars and research centres to join the EUDO network and to cooperate with other leading actors in the field.

EU Profiler Associated with EUDO is the EU Profiler (www.euprofiler.eu), which was an interactive voting advice application for the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections. It was developed in cooperation with the Dutch Kieskompas and the Swiss Smartvote and allowed voters to compare their own policy preferences with their national parties through textual and graphical representations of party policy. During the election campaign the web site provided information to voters in all the major EU languages and received much media attention throughout Europe and elsewhere in the world, attracting over 2.5 million visits. The huge amount of unique data that was produced by the tool is now being analysed. The findings are used by various research projects and publications and they shed light on public opinion, voting behaviour, campaign dynamics, party cohesion and political participation in the EU. The generated data will be a main component of the EUDO Data Centre and users of the EUDO platform have already been provided with the possibility of accessing the first, preliminary presentation of the EU Profiler data. They can explore the positions of political parties in all 30 European countries and the interactive 3-D Political Landscape for each country, representing the answers of almost one million users across all Europe. At the end of April 2010, EUDO published the EU Profiler e-book The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament–Country Reports, edited by Wojciech Gagatek. This e-book, freely available online, comparatively investigates various aspects of the elections and offers 24 country reports with reliable analyses written by country experts.

Project ‘Puzzled by Policy’EUDO forms part of a larger consortium that won, in December 2009, a tender in the framework of the European Commission’s ‘Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme’, ICT Policy Support Programme (Objective Theme 3: ICT for Governance). The project started in the summer of 2010 and aims to diminish the often-felt detachment of citizens from policy-making by providing citizens with a unique platform/portal to learn about policy at the EU level and the meaning of particular policies. Equally important, ‘Puzzled by Policy’ will help decision-makers at both the national and European level better understand the impact of their policies on constituents by feeding citizen reactions. In contributing to this large project, EUDO will mainly use its experiences gained with the EU Profiler and will develop components that allow citizens to profile their ideas on selected policy issues.

Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (PIREDEU)PIREDEU, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme from the European Commission from 2008-2011, is a design study to set up an infrastructure for research on citizenship, political participation, and electoral democracy in the EU. The aim is to create an integrated database for research on electoral democracy in the EU in which the data regarding past and future European Parliamentary elections will be brought


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together and made available for stakeholders and the research community. More specifically, the database is meant to provide users with comprehensive information on the activities of the three main actors involved in the democratic process: parties (and candidates), the mass media, and voters. The study is carried out by a consortium of 14 institutions and is coordinated by the RSCAS. Mark Franklin chairs the PIREDEU Steering Committee; Ingo Linsenmann acts as project manager. The funding period will terminate in spring 2011.

Further information and the data can be obtained from the study’s web site, which also includes an Open Forum for discussion and for consulting the wider research community: www.piredeu.eu.

European Media Policies Revisited: Valuing and Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary Democratic Systems (MEDIADEM)MEDIADEM is a European research project which seeks to understand and explain the factors that promote or hinder the development of policies supporting free and independent media. The project will combine a country-based study with a compara-tive analysis across media sectors and types of media services. It will investigate media policy-making processes in 14 European countries, placing them in their proper socio-political, economic and cultural context, and will examine the opportunities and challenges posed by new media services for media freedom and independence. External pressures on the configuration of state media policies, stemming from the EU and the Council of Europe, will also be analysed in detail. The three-year project started in April 2010, and the project partner at the RSCAS is Fabrizio Cafaggi. More information is available at http://www.mediadem.eliamep.gr/

Other Work in ProgressJean Blondel has been working on cabinet decision-making in Eastern European govern-ments, the social and political values in 18 countries of Western Europe and South East Asia, and the personalisation of leadership. He coauthored with J.L. Thiebault Political Leadership, Parties, and Citizens’ Personalisation of Leadership, published by Routledge early in 2010. He is currently working on presidential systems across the world.

Paolo Ponzano does research on the institutional development of the European Union, not only on the basis of the Treaties, but especially on the changes of the EU’s institutional system as they have occurred in practice.

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Migration represents both an opportunity and a considerable challenge. While well-managed migration may foster progress and welfare in both source and host countries, its mismanagement may put social cohesion, security and sovereignty at risk. Because migration is rapidly evolving, knowledge needs to be constantly updated and shared with policy makers. As a global phenomenon, its study requires innovative coopera-tion between scholars around the world.

Key facultyRSCAS: Jean-Pierre Cassarino, Philippe Fargues, Anna Triandafyllidou, Alessandra VenturiniEUI Departments: Rainer Bauböck (SPS), Ruth Rubio Marin (LAW)

Migration Policy Centre (MPC)The Migration Policy Centre (MPC) at the RSCAS responds to the strategic need of the EU and its Member States for a research centre on migration that can mobilise the best expertise available in Europe, in migrants’ origin and transit countries, and in the scientific community worldwide. It sets out to bridge the gap between research and policy-making by producing policy-oriented research; pooling scholars, experts, and thinkers; and offering an impartial venue for discussion. More specifically, the MPC conducts theoretical and empirical research and sustains the production and use of databases. It develops specific tools adapted to the objective of making research serve action and produces methodologies that address migration governance needs, from implementing and monitoring migration policies to assessing their impact on the economy and society of source and host countries. The MPC identifies problems, studies their causes and consequences, and devises policy solutions. Moreover, it gathers a large pool of expertise and creativity for thinking on migration issues, and facilitates cooperation between researchers and policy-makers. Finally, the MPC brings together different stakeholders for open and frank debates. It provides a forum for comparing and discussing ideas among participants with diverging interests, while maintaining its independence and high scientific standards.

Migration

RSCAS Migration Policy Centre faculty Alessandra Venturini, Philippe Fargues, Jean-Pierre Cas-sarino, Anna Triandafyllidou

Because migration is

rapidly evolving, knowledge

needs to be constantly

updated and shared with

policymakers. Because it is

a global phenomenon, its

study requires innovative

cooperation between scholars

around the world.


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Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM)The CARIM was created in 2004 and cofinanced by the European Commission first as part of the MEDA programme (the main financial instrument of the European Union to establish the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership), and then as part of the AENEAS programme (aimed at providing third countries with the assistance necessary to achieve, at different levels, a better management of migrant flows). It is now funded as part of the Thematic Programme of Cooperation with Third Countries in the Areas of Migration and Asylum.

The Consortium is composed of a coordinating unit established at the RSCAS, and a network of scientific correspondents based in 17 countries in Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and in Sub-Saharan Africa. External experts from the North and the South also contribute to its activities. The Consortium has developed a capacity for observing, analysing and forecasting migratory movements—and their causes and consequences—that originate from, transit through, or are destined for Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, the Palestinian Territory, Syria Tunisia and Turkey and, since mid-2009, Chad, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Sudan.

The CARIM’s objective is to establish a permanent monitoring system for migration and related issues, open to a variety of users: international and regional institutions, governments, academics, and the media. Therefore, a single databank combining three modules—demographic and economic, legal, and socio-political—has been constructed and is continuously updated. Research is done on a number of emerging issues. More than 250 publications have been produced, including three editions of the Mediterranean Migration Report.

CARIM is directed by Philippe Fargues and Alessandra Venturini.

Further information and publications are available at: www.carim.orgSecretariat: [email protected]

Conclusions de la premièrerencontre du CARIM entre experts et décideurs politiquessur la migration hautement qualifiée dans les pays d’Afrique du nord et du sud du Sahara

Philippe Fargues

CARIM Notes d’analyse et de synthèse 2010/40

Série sur la migration hautement qualifiée

Co-financé par l’Institut universitaire européen et l’Union européenne

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Tolerance, Pluralism and Social Cohesion: Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century in Europe (ACCEPT PLURALISM) ACCEPT PLURALISM is a new project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. The project aims to investigate whether European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20 years. In particular it examines how tolerance is defined conceptually; how it is codified in norms, institutional arrangements, public policies and social practices; how tolerance can be measured; and how the degree of tolerance of a society across time or of several countries at the same time can be compared (whose tolerance, who is tolerated, and how degrees of tolerance vary with respect to different minority groups). The project covers 15 EU countries and involves 17 partner institutions. Bringing together empirical and theoretical findings, ACCEPT PLURALISM aims its output at diverse audiences. The ‘State of the Art Report on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe’ targets policy makers, NGOs and practitioners. The ‘Handbook on Ideas of Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe’ is intended for use at the upper high school level and with local/national policy makers. Finally, a ‘Tolerance Indicators’ Toolkit’, where qualitative and quantitative indicators may be used to score each country’s performance on tolerating cultural diversity, along with a book on tolerance, pluralism and cultural diversity in Europe are mainly aimed at an academic readership. The project is coordinated by Anna Triandafyllidou.

Circular Migration in Southern and Central Eastern Europe—Challenges and Opportunities (METOIKOS)METOIKOS, a project co-funded by the European Commission DG-JLS, studies the links between circular migration and the integration (in the destination country) and the reintegration (in the source country) of circular migrants and their families in three European regions (south-eastern Europe/Balkans; south-western Europe/ Maghreb; central-eastern Europe). The project will identify the main challenges and opportunities involved in circular migration for source countries, destination countries and migrants (and their families) with regard to social, economic and political integration in the destination country. It will also look at problems and opportunities for the reintegration of circular migrants in their countries of origin. The project will develop a guide for local, regional and national policy makers to help in framing circular migration with appropriate (re) integration policies. METOIKOS will organize three regional workshops (on Spain, Italy and Morocco; on Greece, Italy and Albania; and on Poland, Hungary and Ukraine) to foster discussion and raise policy-makers and other stakeholders’ awareness on the challenges and advantages of circular mobility in the wider area of the EU Neighbourhood and the Euro-Mediterranean region.

Improving EU and US Immigration Systems’ Capacity for Responding to Global Challenges: Learning from Experiences This project is cofinanced by the European Commission DG Relex in the framework of the Pilot Projects on ‘Transatlantic Methods for Handling Global Challenges in the European Union and United States’. The Migration Policy Institute (MPI, Washington) is partner. The project identifies the ways in which EU and US immigration systems can be substantially improved in order to address the major challenges that policy makers face on both sides of the Atlantic, both in the context of the current economic crisis, and in the long term. The emphasis will be on identifying policies and practices


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that can improve transatlantic mobility and enhance cooperation between the EU and the US while, at the same time, improving cooperation with immigrant sending and transit countries.

Summer School on Mediterranean Migration and DevelopmentThe Summer School on Mediterranean Migration and Development was launched in 2005 and is co-organized with the Università degli Studi di Firenze, Facoltà di Scienze Politiche Cesare Alfieri. It offers post-graduate students and professionals high-level training in the field of migration studies, focusing particularly on the area formed by Europe and the countries to the South and East of the Mediterranean. The School analyses the various interactions between migration and development of both the regions of origin and those of destination; migration policies and the regulation of migration; and integration processes. Research work accompanies teaching activities. Since 2008, the School has been organized as part of the CARIM project and has been cofinanced by the Europe Aid Cooperation office of the European Commission. Massimo Livi-Bacci is President of the Scientific Committee of the School and Philippe Fargues and Gustavo De Santis are co-directors.

Scientific Working Group on India-EU Mobility CooperationGiven the potential for strengthening India-EU cooperation concerning the mobility of people, and with a view to fostering research on migration and development for the benefit of all stakeholders, a network of academics and academic institutions from India and the EU has been established to study and report on the various dimensions of mobility. This network will facilitate the formulation of appropriate policy responses. The Indian Council for Overseas Employment (ICOE, New Delhi, India) is a partner.

Mediterranean 2030A projection for migration flows in the Mediterranean 2010-2030, in partnership with the Institut de Prospective Economique du Monde Méditerranéen—IPEMED.

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The development of the European Union carries with it important implications for the design and outcomes of economic policy. This is the case with the adoption of a single currency and a monetary policy in the Euro-zone, but also with regard to policy issues concerning taxation, regulation, labour markets, the welfare state and the environ-ment. Our goal is to study economic policy issues relevant for the global economy, with particular attention to the old and new European economies.

The first pillar of this theme covers research on international financial systems. The main focus is on monetary integration in an enlarged EMU under the auspices of the Pierre Werner Chair Programme on Monetary Union. We are also concerned with the transatlantic dimension and, more generally, issues in the stability and efficiency of the international financial system.

The second pillar concerns economic stabilisation and the design of fiscal and monetary policy. An important question is the extent to which the European economies share a common business cycle; thus, the monitoring of developments in this field is a core activity.

The third pillar deals with public policy issues relevant for national economies and the international economy. These include longer-term, public-finance issues of taxation policy, pension reform, development and international environmental policy (e.g. markets for pollution permits). Particular attention is paid to the design of an efficient welfare state making use of the principles of mutual obligations and second-best economics. Our ambition is to carry out academic research with policy relevance for Europe and more broadly the global economy, promoting interaction among economists, lawyers, political scientists, sociologists and historians.

Key facultyRSCAS: Elena Carletti, Giancarlo Corsetti, Youssef Cassis, Giovanni Federico, Giorgia GiovannettiEUI Departments: Massimiliano Marcellino (ECO)

Pierre Werner Chair Programme on Monetary UnionThis Programme, named in memory of Pierre Werner, one of the architects of economic and monetary union, was established in 2002 with funding generously provided by the Luxembourg Government. Giancarlo Corsetti held the chair from September 2003 to September 2010. The principal focus of the programme is on economic policy and the political economy of European monetary integration. The programme aims at identifying policy priorities consistent with the new European economic constitution, as well as factors that can foster economic growth and prosperity in a stable macroeconomic environment at both regional and global level. EUI faculty, post-doctoral fellows and researchers, and a range of external collaborators contribute to the programme’s activities. A key goal is pedagogical, with the production and promotion of texts clarifying the logic and mechanisms of European policies for non-specialists such as students, scholars and practitioners. In 2006, the Programme launched a fellowship programme, sponsoring joint work by policy researchers and academics with an interest in carrying out research on EMU. The Pierre Werner Chair has also promoted two research projects in policy modelling and analysis at the European level, with a network of leading European academic and policy institutions. Collaboration with the European Central Bank and national monetary authorities has been intensified on policy issues raised by global imbalances, especially as regards the design of optimal monetary policy in a global world. In 2006, a long-term project on monetary and fiscal policy interactions was launched, involving a network of EUI

Economic and Monetary Policy

Our goal is to study economic

policy issues relevant for

the global economy, with

particular attention to the old

and new European economies.


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alumni, promoting analyses of fiscal stabilization policies at both theoretical and empirical levels.

Further information: www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/EconomySecretariat e-mail: [email protected]

European Forecasting NetworkThe European Forecasting Network, ‘A Network of European Research Institutes for Forecasting and Policy Analysis in the Monetary Union’, was created to provide a critical analysis of the current economic situation in the Euro area, short-term forecasts of the main macroeconomic and financial variables, policy advice, and in-depth study of topics of particular relevance for the working of the EMU. The network brings together the economic expertise of Departments of Economics (Carlos III, the European University Institute, University of Cambridge), the quantitative skills of Departments of Statistics and Econometrics (University of Barcelona, Carlos III), and the practical experience of research centres (CEPII and the Halle Institute for Economic Research). Each of them contributes in an original way to the development and to the release of analyses of the economic situation and outlook for the Euro area, in the form of quarterly reports. The network is coordinated at the RSCAS by Massimiliano Marcellino.

Politics, Economics and Global Governance: The European Dimensions (PEGGED)Increasing global integration processes involve a rapid intensification of cross-border and cross-sectoral economic linkages, affecting distributional patterns and the costs/benefits for the full range of economic agents and constituencies. Furthermore, these linkages have often dramatic effects on the preferences, interests and capacities of a wide range of actors in the global market, across institutional layers (national, regional and international). Such an evolution challenges the sustainability of existing political and social structures and systems of governance, posing important dilemmas in terms of legitimacy and sustainability structures and systems of governance, posing important dilemmas in terms of legitimacy and sustainability. This large-scale integrated project, funded by the European Commission under the FP7 programme, addresses questions relating to international macroeconomic governance; globalization and financial stability; the integration of markets for trade in goods and services; and migration and the mobility of labour. The project consortium includes seven partner institutions. The EUI team includes Elena Carletti, Luigi Guiso, Adrienne Héritier and Ulli Petersman, and is directed by Giancarlo Corsetti.

European Report on Development (ERD)The European Report on Development (ERD) is the main outcome of the Mobilizing European Research for Development Policies, an initiative promoted and financed by the European Commission together with seven EU Member States: Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

The aim of this initiative is to help the European Union refine its vision of development and enrich its policies on the basis of knowledge, innovation, and the building of com-mon ground between the European research community, policy makers, and a broad public. Furthermore, this initiative is meant to improve the visibility of the EU at a glo-bal level, to help shape the international agenda and to feed the EU internal debate on

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development. The ERD is more than a report: it is a process led by a multidisciplinary team based at the RSCAS which interacts with a large network of scholars from both developed and developing countries. It includes several conferences in Europe and Africa as well as a number of consultations. Giorgia Giovannetti is the team leader.

The first edition of the European Report on Development (2009) focused on the issue of fragility in its various dimensions, on its implications for development policies and on the approaches to tackle it. The ERD 2010 deals with social protection provision in developing countries, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Many African countries are stuck in a situation of persistent poverty and are increasingly vulnerable to external shocks, such as climate change, food and fuel price volatility, or the recent financial cri-sis. These shocks undermine progress towards the UN Millennium Development Goals, and increase demand for new and more substantive social protection programs in many African countries. Social protection—which is increasingly recognized as an effective tool to protect people from risks and reduce vulnerability—is thus rapidly becoming a priority in the development agenda, both for donors and local governments.

Further information, including information on the preparatory events leading up to the ERD and links to conference and background papers, can be obtained from the project’s web site: http://erd.eui.eu/

Market Integration and the Welfare of Europeans (INMARWEL)This project, for which Giovanni Federico received an Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council, aims at mapping the long-run process of inte-gration of the European and world markets from the early modern period to present, and at assessing its effects on welfare and institutions. To this end the team is compil-ing a comprehensive database on prices, which will then be made available on-line to scholars at the end of the project. These data will then be used to estimate the gains from integration (or losses from disintegration). Last but not least, the project will consider some case studies of political reactions to integration (e.g. after the Napo-leonic wars) and of changes in institutions.

Other Work in ProgressElena Carletti’s current projects concern the role of liquidity in financial crises, the functioning of interbank markets and central bank intervention, financial regulation and merger valuation. Furthermore, she is interested in African financial development as well as in the role of corporate governance for firm valuation.

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Competition policy is one of the pillars of the Internal Market and a centrepiece of the Economic Constitution of the European Union. Competition rules protect the process of decentralised decision-making that results from the use of economic liberties. It is one of the remarkable success stories of the European Union that it has been able to give strength to economic liberties and competition policy as an integrating force. Pri-vate practices which restrain competition are outlawed where they are in violation of competition rules, and market regulation by Member States must be compatible with the free movement rules and a system of open markets and undistorted competition more generally. The RSCAS has long been at the forefront of research with regard to important developments in competition policy and the (ambivalent) role of regulation in creating or restraining competition. This research concerns the fundamental issues of competition policy—its goals within the European Union, the underpinning legal and economic principles, the structure of legal rules—and covers the whole field rang-ing from anticompetitive agreements to rules regarding market power, merger control, competition rules addressed to the Member States, state aid rules and public procure-ment rules. In the area of market regulation, the topics dealt with by the Centre range from the legitimacy, structure, failure and successes of ‘regulation for competition’ that we observe in liberalized markets like energy and telecommunications, to the issue of ‘private regulation’ with its potentially problematic competitive effects, to market regulation in the area of corporate law and financial market rules. An important initia-tive in this field is the Florence School of Regulation, created in 2004 as a platform for examining issues of European regulation.

Key facultyRSCAS: Matthias Finger, Jean-Michel Glachant, Adrienne Héritier, Giorgio Monti, Pier Luigi Parcu, Pippo RanciEUI Departments: Fabrizio Cafaggi (LAW)

Florence School of Regulation (FSR)The Florence School of Regulation responds to the need for knowledge on best prac-tices in the regulation of network industries. In addition to its directors and scientific advisors, the FSR is composed of nearly two dozen researchers from all over Europe, and provides a European forum where academics, policy and business decision-makers, and regulators from different countries meet and debate. Since its creation in 2004 the FSR has been mainly active in the energy sector (gas and electricity). In 2009 it started activities in the area of communications and media and since April 2010 the FSR has been active in the area of transport. Its members produce up-to-date work on regulatory topics, and findings are regularly published in its working papers series at the RSCAS, and elsewhere.

The objectives of the FSR are to promote informed discussion of key issues; to dis-seminate best practices; to foresee new challenges and to develop a common regula-tory language and regulatory culture. It does so by organising policy workshops and conferences; providing state-of-the-art training for practitioners; and producing analytical studies in the field of regulation. During the academic year 2009/2010 the FSR organised more than a dozen workshops and conferences in the area of energy, communications and media, and transport. Training courses have been organised in various formats (annual e-learning, summer schools, one week intensive training courses, ad hoc training for national regulatory authorities) for more than 200 profes-sionals from energy regulatory authorities and energy companies. Participants come from more than 50 different countries, including not only EU member states, but also countries in Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean basin.

Competition Policy and Market Regulation

The RSCAS has long been

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The FSR is also increasingly involved in regulation at the world level. The FSR manages the International Energy Regulation Network (IERN) that supports the ‘World Forum on Energy Regulation’. The first ever worldwide association of energy regulators (In-ternational Confederation of Energy Regulators, ICER) was created in autumn 2009 at the IVth World Forum, and is now hosted at the FSR. The FSR also supports the Mediterranean Network of Energy Regulators (MedReg).

The FSR is a partnership between the EUI-RSCAS, the Council of the European Ener-gy Regulators (CEER), and the Independent Regulators Group (IRG), working closely with the European Commission. It is directed by Jean-Michel Glachant who is also responsible for the FSR’s area on energy regulation. Pier Luigi Parcu directs the com-munications and media area, and Matthias Finger directs the new area on transport. Financial support for the research activities of the School is provided by the generous contributions of 38 companies. The director of training is Professor Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga (research project leader at MIT). Professor Leigh Hancher (Tilburg Univer-sity) is responsible for the FSR energy law area. Alberto Pototschnig (future director of ACER) is responsible for FSR energy regulatory workshops.

Further information is available at: http://fsr.eui.eu

EU Competition Law and Policy WorkshopThe Robert Schuman Centre’s annual EU Competition Law and Policy Work-shop provides an informal and non-commercial forum for the discussion of legal, economic and policy issues in the application of EU competition law and of various national competition laws. The Workshop has built up a reputation among regulators, academics, and practitioners as a laboratory for innovative ideas that regularly lead to new competition policy initiatives and reforms in Europe. Each year the Work-shop draws together a select group of top-level EU and international policy-makers, academics and legal practitioners. The Workshop proceedings are published on the RSCAS web site and later appear in a more elaborate series of volumes entitled The European Competition Law Annuals, published by Hart Publishing of Oxford. The fifteenth edition of the Workshop concerns substantive, procedural and jurisdictional elements of merger control. The Workshop, originally established by Professors Claus-Dieter Ehlermann and Giuliano Amato, is directed by Philip Lowe, a Director-General of the European Commission. It is co-ordinated by Mel Marquis.

Papers prepared for the Workshop and further information are available at: www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Competition

ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES

Leonardo Meeus, Marcelo Saguan, Jean-Michel Glachant and Ronnie Belmans

“SMART REGULATION FOR SMART GRIDS”

EUI Working PapersRSCAS 2010/45

ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIESFlorence School of Regulation

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Confronting Social and Environmental Sustainability with Economic Pressure: Balancing Trade-offs by Policy Dismantling or Expansion? (CONSENSUS)The EUI is a partner in this EU-funded Seventh Framework collaborative project, coordinated by the University of Konstanz. The project’s main concern arises in response to three important developments in the economy, the environment and society. First, the concept of sustainable development has emerged as an overarching long term goal of the EU and its member states. Second, the idea that economic, social and environmental objectives are necessarily and always mutually supportive cannot be taken for granted. There is still a need to improve our understanding of potential trade-offs between these different dimensions of sustainable development. Third, current political responses that aim to find ways to ensure that economic, social and environmental policies are indeed mutually reinforcing have to be seen in the context of the commitment to better regulation and deregulation rather than simply more new regulation. As a consequence, the search for synergy effects between the three different dimensions of sustainability must attend both expansive (regulatory) and dismantling (deregulatory) patterns inherent to policy change. The RSCAS-based part of the project is directed by Adrienne Héritier. The project will end in February 2011.

Private Transnational Regulation: Constitutional Foundations and Governance DesignThis project, funded by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), addresses key questions concerning the mix of public and private power in transnational governance which are raised by the emergence of transnational private regulatory regimes. The project, in cooperation with stakeholders, tries to appropriate governance design and impact assessment, in addition to monographs on the effects of these regimes on national and transnational legal orders, providing theoretical foundations for policy recommendations. The project is coordinated at the RSCAS by Fabrizio Cafaggi with Tilburg University and University College Dublin as main partner organizations.

Other Work in ProgressAdrienne Héritier, jointly with David Coen from University College London, works on the changes in regulatory policies (network utilities) in EU member states with a particular emphasis on the interaction between regulators and regulated firms. She is at present conducting a large survey of network firms of all sectors in all member states under the theme of ‘regulatory venue shopping’. The data have been collected and are at present being analysed and interpreted in the light of hypotheses on regulatory venue shopping. For about two years Adrienne Héritier, jointly with Yannis Karagiannis from the Istitut de Barcelona de Relaciones Internacionales, has been conducting research on the regulation of civil aviation, in particular the emergence of regulatory transatlantic institutions in the field of civil aviation. The main focus is on the negotiation of an Open Skies Agreement between the EU and the US on the opening of aviation markets across the Atlantic.


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This research area has its base in the Loyola de Palacio Chair in EU Energy Policy, created in 2008.

Key facultyRSCAS: Denny Ellerman, Jean-Michel Glachant, Pippo Ranci

Loyola de Palacio Chair in EU Energy PolicyCreated in October 2008, the Loyola de Palacio (LdP) Chair honours Loyola de Palacio (1950-2006), former Vice-President of the European Commission and EU Commissioner for Energy and Transport (1999-2004). The objectives of the Chair are to produce research, publications and discussion on European key energy policy issues such as EU market building, security of supply, climate change policy, and decarbonisation of EU economy and society.

To reach its objectives, the Loyola de Palacio Chair organizes its activities around five complementary lines of action.

The first is the mapping of current EU energy policy research activities. The key tool here is the Working Paper series, which now includes around 30 working papers from academics and practitioners coming from places such as MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge, Madrid, Leuven and EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. The working paper series is supplemented by a new ‘Loyola Series’ collection of books at Edward Elgar Publishing.

The second line of action is to stimulate the quality of work by young researchers in the EU. The Chair promotes research seminars organised by a nexus of European universities associated informally in the ‘Young Energy Engineers & Economists Seminar (YEEES)’ and in the ‘European Ph.D. Gas Seminars’. The Chair also created two research prizes that were awarded for the first time in 2010 for the best Ph.D. dissertation and the best paper.

The third line of action contributes to EU research. The Chair organises a yearly series of workshops which result in working papers, books, and articles in peer-reviewed journals. In the LdP’s first twenty months of activity, 45 works were published by researchers of the Chair.

Energy Policy


Nicole Ahner, Jean-Michel Glachant and Adrien de Hauteclocque

LEGAL FEASIBILITY OF SCHENGEN-LIKE AGREEMENTSIN EUROPEAN ENERGY POLICY:

THE CASES OF NUCLEAR COOPERATIONAND GAS SECURITY OF SUPPLY


ROBERT SCHUMAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIESLoyola de Palacio Programme on Energy Policy

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The fourth line of action promotes EU Energy Policy Debates to define feasible options to improve EU Energy Policy. In 2009, the topic was ‘Towards a Smart EU Energy Policy’. In 2010 it is ‘EU Energy Network Regulation within Climate Change Policies’.

The fifth line of action produces ‘ready to use’ regulatory or policy principles. Here Loyola de Palacio ad hoc research groups undertake applied research on hot energy issues. One group is ‘New Regulatory Trends’ directed by Jean-Michel Glachant. The second one is the ‘Climate Change Policy Research Unit’ directed by Denny Ellerman, former researcher at MIT, a leading scholar in the field of emission trading schemes and author of the reference book Trading Carbon. The European Union Emissions Trad-ing Scheme (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Jean-Michel Glachant has held the Chair since its foundation in 2008. The director of the area on Climate Change Policy is Denny Ellerman. The Loyola de Palacio chair is currently funded by seven European companies.

Energy Think Tank (THINK)THINK will improve the knowledge support to policy-making by the European Commission in the context of the Strategic Energy Technology Plan. THINK is organized around a multidisciplinary group of 24 experts covering five dimensions of energy policy: science and technology, market and network economics, regulation, law, and policy implementation. The Think Tank will respond to the European Commission’s evolving needs on a semester basis and produce 12 dossiers and a book. Each semester, two projects will go through the quality process of the Think Tank, including an expert hearing to test the robustness of the work, a discussion meeting inside the Think Tank, and a public consultation to test the public acceptance of different policy options by involving the broader community. Each Think Tank dossier will therefore include four chapters: 1) the Think Tank assessment of the energy policy options with clear recommendations for policy makers from the drafting team under guidance of the Project Leader, 2) a report including the comments from two Think Tank Advisors, 3) the expert hearing summary, and 4) the public consultation conclusions. The project is financed by the EU through the 7th Framework Programme and includes a core group of experts of 15 nationalities from 17 partner institutions, coordinated by the European University Institute. By launching this Energy Think Tank and hosting its permanent drafting team, the Florence School of Regulation contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the energy and climate change strategy of the European Commission.

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International and Transnational Relations

The European Union is an international actor of growing significance. Its external policies and those of its member states have major impacts on its neighbours and beyond. In recent years, the Centre has focused on the enlargement of the EU, the Mediterranean region, and transatlantic relations. The global trade regime, European foreign and security policies, and the EU as an international actor are also issues among our interests. The Centre is currently turning its attention to the wider ‘neighbourhood’ policy. The Centre runs a Mediterranean Programme and a Transatlantic Programme and has recently launched the Global Governance Programme.

Key facultyRSCAS: Stefano Bartolini, Bruno De Witte, Miguel Maduro, Kiran Patel, Pascal VennessonEUI Departments: Marise Cremona (LAW)

The Global Governance Programme‘Global governance’ has become a key term in many academic and policy debates. It includes aspects of international relations that were formerly referred to in terms such as ‘international organization’, ‘multilateralism’, or ‘international regime’. Contrary to traditional interstate relations however, contemporary Global Governance is characterized by a stronger awareness that certain problems have a global dimension that can neither be dealt with by individual states nor by regional organizations, but rather by involvement of actors other than states, ranging from private actors (multinational corporations, non-governmental organisations, networks of scientists, and environmentalists) to intergovernmental organisations, and by the experimentation of new arrangements of cooperation beyond the traditional system of ‘hard law’ treaties negotiated by states: public-private and private-private partnerships, ‘soft law’ declarations, private orders, networks and international governmental organizations.

There is increasing support for the idea that order and justice are not necessarily oppos-ing forces in world politics. Global governance has a claim to reconcile the two, in line with the premises of the process of regional integration in the framework of the EU, from which crucial lessons can be drawn for future global governance arrangements.

For the EU, globalization in its many aspects presents a challenge as much as an opportunity. There is a clear need to reflect on the global role of the EU and the Member States, and to prepare policy-makers and academics for the many intellectual

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challenges that global governance issues present in such domains as environment, trade, energy, migration, financial markets, terrorism, justice, and human rights.

Due to its special institutional position, the EUI is uniquely suited as a platform for the development of a European research space on issues of global governance. By establishing contacts and fostering synergies between an increasing number of European and international institutions and researchers interested in issues of globalization and global governance, the Global Governance Programme at the EUI intends to play a leading role in the debate surrounding some of the most relevant issues of the present time.

Amongst other things, the Global Governance Programme improves and broadens doctoral and postdoctoral training with respect to global governance and world affairs at the EUI; develops different strands of basic and applied research on issues of global governance; organises the Academy of Global Governance devoted to top level training, discussion and debates as well as the European Network of Global Governance, an e-community of scholars, policy makers, and researchers who take an interest in global governance issues; and promotes and supports a variety of events, conferences and seminars on issues of global governance.

The Global Governance Programme was inaugurated with a lecture by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durão Barroso, in June 2010. The Programme is directed by Miguel Maduro.

For more information, see: http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/InstitutionsGovernanceDemocracy/GlobalGovernanceProgramme/Index.aspx

European Security and the European Union in World Politics Focusing on key theoretical issues and policy questions, this research domain deals with the issue of what constitutes European security, its dimensions and actors, and its transformations in a global context. We examine how, why, and to what extent states in Europe prepare and use their military power, the growing role of the EU in defence and security, and whether the EU has a grand strategy. The research project, ‘Security and Politics in the Global Village’ explores the ways in which security and politics interact and shape policies in Europe and in the US. An important aspect of this project deals with the changing utility of military power in an interconnected international system and an evolving political environment. We notably explore the changing character of armed conflicts, the ways in which transnational advocacy networks transform the civilian control of the military, and the alleged ‘Europeanization’ of defence and security policies.

The growing role of the European Union in world politics is our second major research area. We examine the European Union in international relations from a political science/international relations perspective as well as from a legal perspective. We explore the coherence of the EU’s foreign policy, its institutions and instruments as well as the underlying worldviews of its main actors. Since 2004, the ‘Security Working Group’ provides a forum for interdisciplinary debate, through presentation of work in progress, exchange with policy-makers, as well as brainstorming on innovative work, and emerging security issues. The group encourages the cross-fertilisation of research in progress at the EUI, and strengthens the social science expertise in the field of security.

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The Transatlantic ProgrammeThe Transatlantic Programme is dedicated to fostering the study of the transatlantic relationship, past and present. It conducts basic and policy-oriented research in an interdisciplinary setting, and aims to improve scholarly understanding of the forces that shape the transatlantic relationship and its role in global processes.

Established in 2000, the Programme has been made possible by generous grants, first from British Petrol (BP) and presently from the Republic of Ireland which funds a chair in Transatlantic Studies. The programme also receives support from the US Mission to the European Union to bring American scholars to the Centre. The programme’s activities include hosting guest speakers, organising lecture series, workshops and conferences and publishing the results of these activities.

In 2007, Kiran Klaus Patel was appointed to the Chair of EU History and Transatlantic Relations. As part of the Transatlantic Programme, Kiran Patel organised or co-organized almost a dozen international conferences on the history of European integration and transatlantic questions. Furthermore, he has managed two larger research projects. One of the most recent events was a two day conference in May 2010 (with Kenneth Weisbrode) entitled ‘Europe and America in the 1980s: Old Barriers, New Openings’. In 2010, a co-edited volume (together with Christof Mauch) comparing German and American history will come out with Cambridge University Press.

Further information is available at: www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/Transatlantic

The Mediterranean ProgrammeThe Mediterranean Programme was inaugurated in 1999. It is mainly funded by private and public corporations, banks, and public authorities. The Programme focuses on the Euro-Mediterranean area, thus encompassing Southern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, including the countries involved in the Barcelona Process, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq. Currently, the Mediterranean Programme is concentrating its efforts on the study of relations between the European Union and the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. At the same time, it continues to enhance the creation of networks between the cultural and research institutes of the countries involved, offering a comfortable environment to establish, or strengthen, informal contacts between policy-makers and experts on both sides of the Mediterranean. The Annual Mediterranean Research Meeting, organized by the RSCAS since March 2000, is the main academic venue in Europe for scholars from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa to discuss original research in the social sciences. The eleventh session, held from 24-27 March 2010 had 16 workshops. The twelfth session will take place from 6-9 April 2011. The Mediterranean Programme is directed by Olivier Roy.

Further information is available at: www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Research/MediterraneanSecretariat: [email protected]

Other Work in ProgressKiran Patel is the spokesperson for a joint research project entitled ‘Imagined Europeans. The Scientific Construction of Homo Europaeus’. The project, in cooperation with Humboldt University, Berlin, the University of Leipzig and the German Museum, Munich, aspires to identify the conceptions of the European that are commonly held in everyday life, in industrial research and in governmental policy-making.


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One of the main goals of the Centre is to draw on its basic research for more policy-oriented activities. The Centre contributes to various initiatives in order to disseminate the results of its research to a wider audience and co-operates with non-academic institutions to address current policy dilemmas.

ConferencesThe Centre regularly holds conferences, workshops and seminars together with public or private, international, European or national institutions. It also organises meetings for groups wishing to discuss topics related to their professional activities while benefiting from academic support and a ‘neutral’ environment.

The Centre invites distinguished personalities to deliver keynote speeches or to participate in conferences and debate with the EUI community.

Policy Papers and Policy ReportsMost of the Centre’s programmes and projects periodically produce reports and working papers on scholarly and policy issues. These include Working Papers’ series in all the above mentioned fields, Research Reports, Analytical and Synthetic Notes, and ‘Proceedings’ from policy-maker and expert meetings, training sessions, and workshops. All papers and reports are freely accessible via the internet.

Public Debate and Policy AdviceFrom time to time, members of the Centre collaborate directly with the work of European, international and national institutions.

Stefano Bartolini participated in a public hearing at the European Parliament (EP) concerning the June 2009 elections; co-organised with the DG presidency of the EP a debate on the relationship between the EP and national parliaments in view of the Lisbon Treaty’s new framework; and is cooperating on the production of a general report on the current state of the Union under the auspices of the international think-tank ‘Policy Network’.

Elena Carletti has been a consultant for the World Bank (2008) and for the OECD (2009, 2010). She has written several policy papers on the global financial crisis, and given numerous background papers and policy presentations on competition, financial markets, and the banking sector at conferences around the world.

Philippe Fargues has been a member of the Global Agenda Council on Migration of the World Economic Forum since 2008. He is regularly consulted by the European Union on migration issues. He is also consulted by French Ministries on migration issues in the framework of the Union for the Mediterranean (UpM). He is a founding member of the Researchers Alliance for Development, a World Bank network.

Giorgia Giovannetti is an advisor of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Trade (since 2007) and the Italian Trade Institute (ICE, policy advisor for the president, since 2002). She has been involved in the dissemination of the European Report on Development and has participated in several policy debates on development policies at the European level (European Commission, European Development Days). She has actively participated in policy discussions held in New York (EISS) and Miami (UNSRID) on issues related to security in Sub-Saharan Africa and responses to disasters. In the past, she has advised the Italian Treasury, the Autorità per l’Informazione Statistica

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(Authority for Statistical Information and Data dissemination) and the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister (in February 1999 on the ‘Impact of EMU on MENA Countries’). She has been scientific coordinator at the Fondazione Manlio Masi Laboratory on Internationalization of SME since March 2005. She is member of the OECD group on the evaluation of globalization indicators.

Jean-Michel Glachant is or has been advisor of DG TREN, DG COMP & DG RESEARCH at the European Commission and of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He is or was coordinator or scientific advisor of several European research projects (SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov, TradeWind, Secure, Optimate, THINK). He is research partner of the CEEPR at MIT (USA), of the EPRG at Cambridge University and of EEI at the University of Leuven.

Kiran Klaus Patel writes regularly for Internationale Politik, Germany’s leading foreign policy journal. Over the last few years, he has also given several interviews to newspapers, radio stations, and TV channels. Moreover, he has co-organized a public exhibition making available the findings of the research project ‘Imagined Europeans. The Scientific Construction of Homo Europaeus’ to the wider public.

Pippo Ranci has been president of the Italian Authority for Electricity and Gas (1996-2003) and vice president of the Council of European Energy Regulators (2000-2003). Recently, he has been consulted by the European Parliament and by the European Commission on energy policy issues.

Olivier Roy has published as a New York Times Op-Ed Contributor ‘Then There’s Pakistan and the Pashtun’ (3 December 2009) and ‘The Allure of Terrorism’ (10 January 2010).

In 2009 and 2010, Pascal Vennesson was a team member of the European Report on Development in charge of the security-development nexus.

Alessandra Venturini has collaborated with the OECD migration section, the European Commission Migration Programme, CEPR Migration Research programme, and the World Bank. She is a member of the TOM—Transnationality of Migrants (Marie Curie Research Training Network).

As found in the project descriptions under the core themes, many RSCAS projects and programmes have the express aim of contributing to public debate and policy advice. For example, in 2010 EUDO conducted several strongly policy-oriented projects (amongst others for the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Socialists and Democrats group of the European Parliament) and presented some of its activities to the European Parliament. The Migration Policy Centre, ERD, the FSR and the Loyola de Palacio Chair in EU Energy likewise have policy-relevant objectives.

Elena Carletti, Panel discussion on the Future of the Eurozone

policy briefISSUE 2010/01 • June 2010

Highlights

– The European Union set ambitious objectives for the year 2020 in terms of increase of renewable generation, energy savings and reduction of GHG emissions. These objectives lead Europe towards a complete decarbonisation of the electricity system

– There is a key role to be played by grids in facilitating the re-quired transformation and this implies they need to become “smart”

– in practical terms, making grids smart means deepening the en-ergy system integration and grid users participation. Grids have to reconfigure notably for the integration of distributed gen-eration (DG), the integration of massive large-scale renewable (RES), and for the integration of facilitating demand response

– Smarter grids need a smarter regulation. A smart regulation reconfigures the incentives and coordination tools of grid com-panies and grid users and aligns them towards the new policy objectives

– Some of the incentives provided to grid companies and grid users by the existing regulation must be corrected and some ad-ditional mechanisms must be conceived and experienced

The Florence School of Regulation is a partnership between the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER), the Independent Regulators Group (IRG) and the European University Institute (EUI). The Florence School of Regulation dealing with the main network industries has developed a strong core of general regulatory topics and concepts as well as inter-sectoral discussion of regulatory practices and policies.

Florence School of RegulationRobert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

European University InstituteVilla Malafrasca Via Boccaccio 15150133 Firenze - Italy

Contact FSR coordinator:[email protected]

1 Meeus l., Saguan M., J.M. Glachant and R. Belmans (2010): ‘Smart Regulation for Smart Grids’http://hdl.handle.net/1814/14043

Smart Regulation for Smart GridsAuthors: Leonardo Meeus, Marcelo Saguan, Jean-Michel Glachant and Ronnie Belmans1

Editors: Jean-Michel Glachant and Emanuela Michetti

On the web: http://fsr.eui.eu

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Jean Monnet FellowshipsThrough its Jean Monnet Fellowship Programme, the Centre offers fellowships to post-docs in an early stage of their academic career. These fellowships are awarded on the basis of applications, with a focus on the core research themes of the Centre. During their stay at the RSCAS, fellows work on a selected topic that fits well within the overall research profile of the RSCAS, and they are expected to participate actively in the academic life of the Centre and of the EUI. Each fellow is assigned a professorial mentor. Their stay at the Centre should result in at least the publication of either a RSCAS Working Paper or a publication in a scientific journal or with an appropriate publishing house. Fellowships usually have a duration of 12 or 24 months. More information about eligibility and conditions can be found on the relevant web pages.

Calls for Jean Monnet Fellowship ApplicationsThe call for Jean Monnet Fellowship applications for the academic year 2011/12 closes on 25 October 2010.

The on-line application form for the academic year 2012/13 will be accessible from early July 2011 with a deadline of 25 October 2011.

For more information about Jean Monnet Fellowships, see: www.eui.eu/Servac/Postdoctoral/JeanMonnetFellowships

E-mail: [email protected]. + 39 055 4685 377

Marie Curie FellowshipsThe EUI is a host institution for European Commission-funded Marie Curie Fellows. Potential applicants for a Marie Curie Fellowship to be hosted at the RSCAS should ensure the support of one of the RSCAS faculty and express their interest through the EUI preselection procedure, which is announced on the EUI web site well in advance of the call deadlines set by the Commission. The RSCAS selection committee will assess which proposals fit with the RSCAS core research themes and then consider whether the EUI can act as the host institution for the applicant. If agreed, the EUI will co-ordinate the application process with the candidate.

Deadlines to be checked on the European Commission CORDIS web site: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm

EUI contact: [email protected]. + 39 055 4685 377

Other Externally Funded FellowshipsPostdoctoral researchers with interests in the Centre’s core research areas are also encouraged to apply to national or private funding schemes for which the EUI is an acceptable host institution and should contact the RSCAS before applying.

RSCAS contact: [email protected]. + 39 055 4685 797

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Visiting FellowsThere are opportunities for senior scholars who work in fields that fit within the research profile of the Centre to spend periods at the Centre, for example during sabbatical leave, or drawing on their own grant funding. Potential applicants should contact the Centre, provide details of the topic on which they plan to work, send a CV, and specify the period when they would want to visit the Centre. We are particularly interested in applications from scholars working on the core research themes of the Centre whose application is supported by a member of the Centre’s academic faculty.

The application deadlines for visiting fellowships for the academic year 2011/12 are 30 November 2010 and 30 April 2011.

RSCAS contact: [email protected]. + 39 055 4685 797

Fellowship Application DeadlinesDeadline for applications for Jean Monnet Fellowships for the academic year 2011/12: 25 October 2010

Deadline for applications for Jean Monnet Fellowships for the academic year 2012/13: 25 October 2011

Deadlines for applications for Visiting Fellowships for the academic year 2011/12: 30 November 2010 and 30 April 2011

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Effective dissemination of its high-quality research output is a key priority of the RSCAS. It is achieved through a dynamic publication policy and a versatile web site.

Publications Serial RSCAS publications include peer-reviewed Working Papers (60-80 papers a year) and occasionally Policy Papers and Distinguished Lectures. The RSCAS also produces RSCAS News, an electronic newsletter with information on major events, announcements, and research and publication news.

Some of the major research projects at the Centre also publish serial publications, including the CARIM Research Reports and CARIM Analytical and Synthetic Notes, and FSR Reports on Workshop Proceedings. Other projects such as the Loyola de Palacio Programme on Energy Policy, EUDO, and the European Report on Development publish their results as reports, e-books, or in the above-mentioned RSCAS working paper series. In addition, monographs or edited books based on research conducted by professors and fellows at the Centre are published by some of the most prestigious academic publishers.

In line with its open access publishing policy, RSCAS working papers, policy papers, distinguished lectures, and research project reports are available in full-text in the EUI Institutional Repository (CADMUS), and can be browsed and downloaded either from the RSCAS publications web page (http://www.eui.eu/RSCAS/Publications/), or directly from CADMUS (cadmus.eui.eu). These web pages also provide complete bibliographical information on other RSCAS publications (books, journal articles, etc.) not yet available electronically in full-text. The Centre also gives access via the web site to various project reports and conference handouts.

The Centre is a founding member of the ERPA—European Research Papers Archive (eiop.or.at/erpa/), and links to some publications are also indexed in a number of part-ner sites, including REPEC and Google Scholar.

Web Besides its corporate web site, the Centre manages various project web sites, including those of the European Report on Development (ERD), European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO), New Modes of Governance (NewGov), PIREDEU, ACCEPT-Pluralism, MIREM and CARIM.

Alongside the publications database, other searchable databases provide dynamic, up-to-date information about the activities and the people of the Centre. The calendar of seminars and events is the best place to find information on any of the more than 200 events organised by the RSCAS each year—on site, in Italy, and abroad.

News and events can also be followed via RSS or by subscribing to the various electronic newsletters and mailing lists the RSCAS offers (besides the RSCAS newsletter, EUDO, CARIM, METOIKOS and ACCEPT have their own news platforms).

The People database not only provides RSCAS affiliations and contact information for all RSCAS members, including visitors, but also provides links to extended CVs and personal home pages.

The RSCAS web site also offers the scientific community several free research tools, as ‘public goods’. Among the most recent are a 3-D Political landscape of the 30 European Countries produced as the output of the EU-Profiler; the various databases of legal

Publications and Web

February 2009 RSCAS News

In this issue

• Editorial• Research News• Major Events• Publications• Announcements• Staff News

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Research News

The RSCAS has recently signed a contract with DG Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission to analyse Labour Markets Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries. In the context of this project, a first coordination and methodological workshop was scheduled in Florence on 29 January. The scientific director of the project is Philippe Fargues.

The RSCAS has obtained co-funding from the EuropeAid Cooperation Office of the European Commission to continue and extend the CARIM project for two more years. Both the thematic and the geographic range of CARIM will be extended. The International Labour Organization and the International Organization for Migrations are partners in this project.

The EU Profiler, a Europe-wide voting advice application for the 2009 European Parliamentary Elections, will be launched at the end of April. The RSCAS develops it with the technical support of the Dutch Kieskompas and in cooperation with the Swiss Smartvote. The tool will be available in all national languages of the EU and will be customised to each country’s national campaign context. The EU Profiler will present all parties in a 'European landscape' and allow voters to compare their own policy preferences with those of

Editorial by Jean-Michel Glachant

Towards a smart European energy policy: Reason and rationale as a policy initiativeEU energy policy can be pushed or pulled by Europeans and European Member States. Of course, the EU faces tremendous energy challenges ahead, such as competitiveness, security of supply and sustainability. Furthermore, the current energy price deflation in effect since late summer 2008 is not a universal remedy and could even worsen the situation by suppressing incentives to act boldly and by reducing resources to finance necessary changes. Europe must face these great challenges while its energy policy is still in its infancy. This may not be all bad, and could indeed represent an opportunity.

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Major Events

The Loyola de Palacio Programme started its activities with a workshop in Florence, organized in cooperation with LARSEN (Laboratoire d’Analyse economique des Réseaux et des Systémes ENergétiques), on Efficiency, Competition and Long Term Contracts in Electricity Markets on 15 – 16 January.

CARIM organized a meeting between policy experts and experts on Irregular Migration into and through Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries in Florence on 26 and 27 January.

The kick off meeting of the new EUCITAC project, (ComparingCitizenship Policies in Europe), took place on 29 and 30 January in Florence, bringing together the members of the observatory on European citizenship laws and policies from the 27 EU member states and neighboring countries.

The Pierre Werner Chair Programme hosts the 4th Annual Workshop on Global Interdependence on 6 and 7 March in Florence. This meeting of leading European international economists will focus on international financial and banking integration and the international transmission of fiscal and monetary policy.

On 13-14 March the RSCAS organizes, in the framework of EUDO, a conference on Bringing Civil Society in: The EU and the rise of representative democracy. The conference will bring together leading specialists in the field of analysis of civil society and social movement is Europe to discuss the growing public hostility toward the EU.

The European Report on Development project organizes its first workshop, on Food crisis and development potential of the agricultural sector in fragile countries on 17 and 18 March in Cambridge. This is the first of a series of workshops that will be organized in Europe and Africa. The second meeting is scheduled for April in Florence.

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documents, statistics and a wide bibliography on citizenship, constructed by the EUDO Observatory on Citizenship; and the various databases on migration of the CARIM and MIREM projects.

The RSCAS has recently introduced interactive tools as Forums, Blogs and Social Networks to provide scholars with virtual places to discuss ideas and exchange information. The main examples are the EUDO Café, the Global Governance Programme Social Network and the EUDO Citizenship Forum.

A key feature of the RSCAS web sites is interactive support for our research activities and international events. This includes online registrations and restricted access pages enabling dissemination of material and information to ad hoc research networks or participants in RSCAS activities.

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The Centre is based in three historical buildings situated in the hills just outside Florence, Tuscany: the Convento di San Domenico, Villa Malafrasca and Villa La Pagliaiuola. All working spaces are equipped with a personal computer and up-to-date research software and networking facilities. Information on other facilities and advice for housing, child care, and schools is available at: www.eui.eu/Servac/PracticalInformation/

The EUI LibraryResearch at the Institute is supported by a first class library and a team of experienced librarians and information specialists. The EUI Library is a ‘hybrid’ library, comprising both an extensive collection of traditional resources (books, documents and journals on paper or in microform) and a rapidly growing digital component. The collections include approximately 3000 print journals, and around half a million volumes in law, economics, history and civilization, and political and social sciences, with European issues being particularly well represented. Most of the Library’s holdings are on open access. Via its web pages (www.eui.eu/LIB), the Library provides access for EUI members to more than 10000 electronic journals, to bibliographic and statistical databases as well as to many free web-based resources. Users have a range of services at their disposal, all of which aim to put information within easy reach: on-demand acquisition of books, generous lending policies, fast document delivery services and interlibrary loan facilities, reference and personal instruction. Using their own laptops, users can access the campus network from many fixed network access points throughout the Library and also through the wireless LAN.

The Historical Archives of European Union (HAEU)The Institute hosts the Historical Archives of the European Union Institutions, namely The High Authority of the ECSC, The Commission of the EEC (1952/82), The Council of Ministers (1952/71), The European Parliament (1952/79) except the Commissions of European Parliament (available until 1984), the Court of Auditors (1976/92), the Economic and Social Committee (1958/73) and the European Investment Bank (1958/2004), as provided according to the thirty years of delay of access rule. This unique collection (5200 linear meters) is supplemented by the archives of the OECD, ESA, and others. Many important European personalities and officials (Presidents of the European Commission and Commissioners) have donated their personal archives or special collections to the Archives. Relevant material deposited by pro-European movements such as the European Movement, the European Federalists Union, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions, The European League for Economic co-operation, The European Association of Teachers, and extracts from Member States national archives are also housed and consultable at the HAEU. See: http://www.eui.eu/ECArchives/EN.

The EUI Language Centre The Language Centre offers courses designed to meet the academic, professional and social needs of the EUI research community. In September, a variety of intensive language courses are offered in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. From October on, these courses continue on a less intensive basis, and some are aimed to prepare participants to sit official language certificates. Courses are free of charge for Jean Monnet Fellows, while partners are required to pay a small fee per course. Fellows are also entitled to submit a paper, prepared during their fellowship period, for language (English) revision. See: www.eui.eu/LINGUE

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DirectorStefano Bartolini (1952) has directed the RSCAS since September 2006. He has taught at the University of Bologna (1976 and 2004), the European University Institute (1979 and 1994), the University of Florence (1985), the University of Trieste (1990), and the University of Geneva (1991). He was awarded the UNESCO Stein Rokkan Prize for the Social Sciences in 1990, the Gregory Luebbert APSA Prize in Comparative Poli-tics in 2001, and the best book prize of the European Politics section of the APSA in 2002. His research interests have focused on Western European political development, comparative methodology, political institutions and European integration. He has published in the fields of French and Italian politics, presidentialism and institutional reform, political parties, and European electoral history and electoral behaviour. His most recent books include The Class Cleavage. The Electoral Mobilisation of the Euro-pean Left 1880–1980 (Cambridge, 2000); Maggioritario finalmente? La transizione elet-torale 1994–2001 (Bologna, 2002) and Restructuring Europe. Centre Formation, System Building and Political Structuring between European Integration and the Nation State (Oxford, 2005).

Faculty Jean Blondel, professor emeritus at the EUI, won the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science 2004. He became professor of political science at the EUI in 1985 and was an external professor from 1994 to 2000. He set up the Department of Government at the University of Essex in 1964 and co-founded the European Consortium of Political Re-search. His field is comparative politics. He was recently awarded honoris causa doc-torates from the University of Macerata (2007) and the University of Siena (2008)

Elena Carletti (Ph.D. London School of Economics 2000) joined the Institute in October 2008 from the Goethe University of Frankfurt where she is Associate Professor of Finance. She holds the Joint Chair in Economics at the EUI. She was previously an assistant professor at the University of Mannheim (2000-2004) and a senior researcher at the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt (2004-2008). Her research interests are in the areas of financial crises, corporate governance, industrial organization and competition policy. She now works on the role of liquidity in financial crises and the functioning of interbank markets, bank consolidation, and, more generally, the implications of the structure of policy institutions for the efficiency and stability of credit markets. Her papers have been published in international journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Accounting and Economics, the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Jean-Pierre Cassarino is part-time professor at the Migration Policy Centre of the RSCAS. Previously, he was a senior programme officer at the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITC-ILO), Turin. His research fo-cuses on return migrants’ reintegration processes and contribution to development. He is also interested in analysing migration policy design and implementation as well as how policy transfers are administered through processes of bilateral and multilat-eral consultations mobilizing countries of destination, of transit and of origin. He is actively involved in fund-raising. In 2010 he will publish a new volume entitled Unbal-anced Reciprocities: Cooperation on Readmission in the Euro-Mediterranean Area, with the Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington, DC. In 2008 he edited a special issue

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of the International Journal on Multicultural Societies entitled ‘Conditions of Modern Return Migrants’.

Youssef Cassis will hold a joint chair with the RSCAS and the Department of History and Civilization from 1 January 2011. He was Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and, from 1997 to 2004, Professor of International Economic History at the University Pierre Mendes France in Grenoble, France. He has also held a long-standing research fellowship at the London School of Economics and has been a visiting professor at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva, the Cass Business School in London, and the University of St. Gallen. His work mainly focuses on banking and financial history, as well as business history more generally. He has coordinated an international research project on ‘The Performance of European Business the Twentieth Century’. His most recent books include Capitals of Capital: A History of International Financial Centres, 1780-2005 (Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2nd revised edition 2010), and Crises and Opportunities 1890-2010: The Shaping of Modern Finance, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in February 2011.

Giancarlo Corsetti, Chair in Macroeconomics at the University of Cambridge, is Pierre Werner Chair (part-time) at the RSCAS and the Department of Economics at the European University Institute. He joined the Institute in 2003, on leave from the University of Rome III. He has previously taught at the Universities of Bologna, Yale and Columbia. His main field of interest is international economics, with focus on global models, currency and financial crises and European Monetary Union. He is currently co-editor of the Journal of International Economics, and co-director of the In-ternational Macroeconomic Programme at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Bruno de Witte is part-time professor at the RSCAS, in combination with his position of Professor of European Union Law at Maastricht University. He was Professor of European Union Law in the EUI Law Department from 2000 to March 2010. During that time, he also held a joint chair at the RSCAS from 2000 to 2006, within the framework of which his main research field was European constitutionalism and the reform of the European Treaties. He co-directed the EUI Academy of European Law from 2001 until 2010, and was EUI Dean of Studies from 2005 to 2008. At the RSCAS, he will continue the Centre’s traditional line of research on the institutional law of the European Union, in the new context created by the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty.

Denny Ellerman is the director of the Climate Change Policy research unit and part-time professor at the RSCAS. He recently retired as a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he was for many years executive director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. He is an internationally recognized expert on energy and environmental economics with a particular focus on climate policy, emissions trading, and interactions with energy markets. He is a co-author of the leading books on the US SO2 and the EU CO2 Allowance Trading Programs: Markets for Clean Air: The US Acid Rain Program and Pricing Carbon: The European Emissions Trading Scheme. Prior to his position at MIT, he spent 18 years in Washington, D.C., working for the US Government (primarily the Department of Energy and its predecessors), the National Coal Association, and Charles River Associates, an economic consulting firm. In 1990, he was president of the International Association for Energy Economics. He has a Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard University.

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Philippe Fargues

Giovanni Federico

Matthias Finger

Giorgia Giovannetti

Philippe Fargues is the director of the Migration Policy Centre and the scientific director of the Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM). He was professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Center, and is now on leave from the National Institute for Demographic Studies in Paris (INED). He has extensively researched the demography of the Islamic world and taught courses in population studies in France, in the Middle East, in Africa and in the US.

Giovanni Federico received his Ph.D. in economic history from the Scuola Normale Superiore and is Professor of Economic History at the University of Pisa (on leave). He was an editor of the European Review of Economic History from 2002 to 2008. His previous research has dealt with Italian economic development (The Economic Development of Italy, Cambridge University Press, 2001, with Jon Cohen), the history of the world silk industry (An Economic History of the Silk Industry-1830-1930, Cam-bridge University Press, 1997), and the history of world agriculture (Feeding the World, Princeton University Press 2005). His current research interests focus on the causes of market integration and its effect on welfare in the long term, on the role of trade in Italian and world economic growth and on the political economy of taxation in Italy.

Matthias Finger is director of the transport area of the Florence School of Regulation. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Geneva and has been an as-sistant professor at Syracuse University (New York), an associate professor at Columbia University (New York), Professor of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administration and, since 2002, Professor of Management of Network Industries at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is also a member of both the Swiss railways and Swiss electricity regulatory authori-ties. His main research interest is on the liberalization, re-regulation, and governance of infrastructures in the transport, energy, and communications sectors. He is the co-editor in chief of the Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries.

Giorgia Giovannetti is scientific director of the European Report on Development and Professor of Economics at the University of Florence. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cambridge and has previously held positions at the Universities of Cambridge (Trinity College), and Rome. She has been visiting professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and is visiting professor at New York University (Florence). She specialises in international and development economics and has been working extensively on the link between trade and foreign direct investments, on international economic policy and on firms’ dynamics, on economic and financial crisis and on pro-poor growth and investments. She has published articles in academic journals such as the European Economic Review, the Review of Economic Dynamics, the Journal of Economic Policy Reform, the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, the European Journal of Development Research, Applied Economics as well as in a number of important Italian journals. Her work has also been included in edited volumes and international series of working papers. She has directed the Research Centre of the Italian Trade Institute for two years and collaborated extensively with the Italian Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Trade.

Jean-Michel Glachant received a masters and Ph.D. in economics at La Sorbonne in Paris. His Ph.D. was awarded and published by the Presses de La Sorbonne. He was an assistant professor and then a professor of economics at La Sorbonne and University Paris Sud. At La Sorbonne, he was deputy-director then director of the


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research centre for ‘Analytical Theory of Organizations and Markets’, member of the Board of the Department for Economics and of the Hiring Committee, and Delegate for Economics, Management and Mathematical Research at the Scientific Council. He left La Sorbonne for University Paris Sud in Fall 2000 where he became the head of the Department of Economics and founded the Groupe Réseaux Jean Monnet research team. In 2005 he founded a European master ‘Erasmus Mundus’ named EMIN (Economics and Management of Network Industries). He has directed the Florence School of Regulation and held the Loyola de Palacio Chair in EU Energy Policy at the EUI since 2008. He is or has been advisor of DG TREN, DG COMP and DG RESEARCH at the European Commission and of the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE). He is or was coordinator or scientific advisor of several European research projects (SESSA, CESSA, Reliance, EU-DEEP, RefGov, TradeWind, Secure, Optimate, THINK). He is research partner of the CEEPR at MIT (USA), of the EPRG at Cambridge University, and of EEI at the University of Leuven.

Adrienne Héritier is Joint Chair in Comparative and European Public Policy in the RSCAS and EUI Social and Political Sciences Department since 2003. She was a director of the Max Planck Project Group for ‘Common Goods: Law, Politics, and Economics’ in Bonn from 1999 to 2003. Before that, from 1995 to 1999, she held a chair in public policy at the EUI. She is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a member of the Academia Europea. In 1994, she was awarded (jointly with Helmut Willke) the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize for research, by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Her research focuses on European policy-making, comparative public policy, European decision making processes, theories of institu-tional change and deregulation and re-regulation and new modes of governance. She is currently the chair of the European Union Studies Association.

Miguel Poiares Maduro was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. Since October 2009 he has held the Joint Chair in European Law with the RSCAS and the Department of Law, and he directs the Global Governance Programme. He also teaches at Yale Law School and the College of Europe. He was a professor at the law school of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and external professor at the London School of Economics. He was the first winner of the Rowe and Maw Prize and winner of the Prize Obiettivo Europa (for the best Ph.D. thesis at the EUI). He is co-director of the Academy of International Trade Law (Macao). He is on the editorial or advisory boards of several law journals, including the European Law Journal and the Common Market Law Review. Recent publications include A Constituição Plural – Constitutionalismo e União Europeia (Lisboa, Principia, 2006) and The Past and Future of EU Law (co-edited with Loic Azoulai, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009). He has been honoured by the President of the Portuguese Republic with the Order of Sant’Iago da Espada for literary, scientific and artistic merit. He was awarded the 2010 Gulbenkian Science Prize.

Giorgio Monti, at the EUI since September 2010, holds the Joint Chair in Competi-tion Law with the RSCAS and the Law Department. He has spent the majority of his academic life in the UK, holding positions at the University of Leicester (1994-2001) and the London School of Economics (2001-2010), where he has taught a wide range of courses, including competition law, the English law of contract and tort, and EU law. His previous research has spanned a wide range of fields but has recently focused on competition law. He is the author of EC Competition Law (Cambridge University Press, Law in Context Series, 2007). At the EUI his research will concentrate on three Giorgio Monti

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fields: the nature of competition law from theoretical perspectives and linking these to the practical application of the law; the laws of state aid and in particular their ap-plication during the financial crisis, and the relationship between competition law and utilities regulation.

Pier Luigi Parcu has been Communications and Media Area Director of the Florence School of Regulation since September 2009. He also chairs a consultancy firm specialized in antitrust and regulatory issues. From 2000 to 2003, he was CEO of the Independent System Operator running the Italian electricity grid. In the 1990s he was Director of Investigation at the Italian Competition Authority. Previously, he was Chief Economist at the Italian Security and Exchange Commission and an economist at the International Monetary Fund. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research in the area of industrial organization and law and economics focuses on the interaction between regulation and antitrust in shaping firms’ behaviours in network industries.

Kiran Klaus Patel holds the Joint Chair in EU History and Transatlantic Relations with the Department of History and Civilization. He was awarded his Ph.D. in history at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he then became an assistant professor (Juniorprofessor). In 2006/07, he was a Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. Between 2006 and 2009 he was the spokesperson of the joint research project ‘Imagined Europeans. The Scientific Construction of Homo Europaeus’ and of the bi-national network ‘Europeanisation & History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion’. His research focuses on US American history in a global dimension, the history of the European Union, on modern German history and on conceptual problems of comparative and transnational history.

Paolo Ponzano is a senior fellow at the RSCAS and a special adviser of the European Commission. Former collaborator of Altiero Spinelli at the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, he has worked for the European Commission from 1971 to 2009. He was formerly Director for Relations with the Council of Ministers, subsequently for Institutional Matters and Better Regulation. He was also Alternate Member of the European Convention in 2002/03. He has published around 35 articles in several European journals, such as the Revue du Droit de l’UE, and the Review of European Affairs as well as a chapter on the ‘Institutions of the EU’ in Genesis and Destiny of the European Constitution (Bruylant, 2007) and a chapter on the European Parliament’s powers in the book 50 years of European Parliament (1958-2008).

Pippo Ranci is part-time professor in the Florence School of Regulation. He directed the Florence School of Regulation from its inception until September 2008. He is a professor at the Università Cattolica in Milan. He has been president of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas (1996-2003), a co-founder and vice president of the Council of European Energy Regulators (2000-03), and often a consultant to the Italian government (1972-93) on issues of economic policy. His research interests and publications are in regulation, industrial and energy policy, and non-profit organisations.

Olivier Roy holds the Joint Chair in Mediterranean Studies with the RSCAS and the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He has been a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, a professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a visiting professor at the University of California,

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Berkeley (2008-2009). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan (1993-94) and was a consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan (1988). His field work included Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions. He received an Agrégation de Philosophie and a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. He is the author of Globalized Islam (University of Chicago Press), 2004, and more recently of La Sainte Ignorance (Seuil 2008), which has been translated into English (Holy Ignorance, Columbia University Press), Italian (Santa Ignoranza) and German (Heilige Einfalt). He is presently working on ‘Islamic norms in the public sphere’ and on the globalization of religions.

Anna Triandafyllidou, part-time professor at the RSCAS, is also a senior research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Surrey (1994-95), London School of Eco-nomics (1995-97), Consiglio Nazionale per le Ricerche in Rome (1997-99), New York University (2001), Bristol University (2001-02) and Democritus University of Thrace (2007-2010). During the last ten years she has coordinated over 10 international re-search projects at the EUI and in ELIAMEP in the field of migration and European in-tegration. Her recent publications include European Immigration: A Sourcebook (with R. Gropas, 2007, Ashgate), The European Public Sphere and the Media (with R. Wodak and M. Krzyzanowski, Palgrave, 2009), Migration in 21st Century Greece (with T. Ma-roukis, 2010, Kritiki, in Greek), Muslims in 21st Century Europe (2010, Routledge), and Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (2010, Ashgate).

Pascal Vennesson holds the Joint Chair in Security in Europe with the Department of Social and Political Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences-Po) in 1992 and was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, at the Mershon Center, Ohio State University, and a research associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. As professeur agrégé des universités (tenured full professor), he has taught at the University Panthéon-Assas, Paris II since 2000. He is a member of the editorial board of the Revue Française de Science Politique and Security Studies. His main research interests are: international security, strategy and policy, the changing characters of war and the European Union as an international actor. He recently published ‘War Without the People’ in The Changing Character of War (OUP, 2010), as well as articles in the European Foreign Affairs Review and in New Global Studies.

Alessandra Venturini is the executive director of the Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration (CARIM), and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Turin. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the EUI, and has held positions at the Universities of Florence, Bergamo, and Padova. She has also held visiting positions at Brown University, the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University), and the International Institute of Labour Studies at the ILO in Geneva. She has collaborated with the OECD migration section, the European Commission Migration Programme, CEPR Migration Research programme, and the World Bank. She is a fellow at the IZA, CHILD, FIERI, and member of IMISCOE. Her research interests are in Labour Economics, with a focus on the effects of migration and on foreigners’ assimilation in the destination country, on the effect of remittances and high skilled migration in sending countries and on circular and irregular migration.

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Fellows and Visitors Academic Year 2010/11

Jean Monnet Fellows 2010/11Philip Bajon, University Paris IV and University Duisburg-Essen, Votes and Vetoes: The Legacy of the Luxembourg Compromise 1966-1986 (Vincent Wright Fellowship in Comparative History)

Simone Bertoli, University of Florence, Selective Immigration Policies: Assessing the Impact on Origin and Destination Countries (CARIM)

Michael Blauberger, University of Bremen, With Luxemburg in Mind: The Making of National Policies in the Face of ECJ Jurisprudence

Giuseppe Campesi, University of Florence, Policing the Euro-Mediterranean Border (CARIM)

Lorenzo De Sio, EUI, Are Less-Involved Voters the Key to Win Elections?

Joeffrey Drouard, Ensae and University of Paris I, Convergence of Content Providers and Network Owners into ‘One Overall Internet Ecosystem’ (FSR)

Tamirace Fakhoury, EUI, Diasporas’ Engagement in Homeland Politics: Can ‘Political Remittances’ Spur Democratisation in the Arab World? (CARIM) (Vincent Wright Fellowship in Comparative Politics)

Martha Fraile, CSIS Madrid, Mass Media, Political Knowledge and Electoral Behaviour: Testing the Media Effects

Francesco Giumelli, Metropolitan University Prague, Measuring the Effectiveness of EU Targeted Sanctions: An Empirical Analysis after the Cold War

Turku Isiksel, Yale University, Citizens of a New Agora: International Economic Institutions and the Untold Story of Post-national Citizenship (Global Governance Programme)

Shuichi Kawashima, Meiji University, From Community to Polity? Development of the Administrative Governance Structure within the European Community in the 1970s (Canon Fellowship)

Haikel Khalfallah, SUPELEC, Reliability of Electricity Systems: The Role of Investment Incentive Mechanisms (FSR)

Girish Kumar, Indian Law Institute, WTO, TRIPS and South Asia: Internalisation of TRIPS and the Problem of Access to Medicines (Global Governance Programme) (until December 2010)

Oren Levintal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Do Business Cycles Affect Households’ Asset Allocation? (Pierre Werner Chair)

Marcella Lucchetta, University of Verona, Financial Stability, Banks Behavior and Market Structure (Pierre Werner Chair)

Nadia Marzouki, Yale University, Conversions to Evangelicalism in the Mediterranean World (Mediterranean Programme)

Autumn Payton, EUI, Vote-Making and Taking: How Decisions and Delegation in International Organizations Affect International Policy Outcomes

Anne Thies, University of Reading, Loyalty and Its Limits: EU Member States’ Cooperation Duties and Their Limits within the Context of European External Relations

Gaby Umbach, University of Cologne, Global Policy Crises and Institutional Responses of the Early 21st century (Global Governance Programme)

Silvester Van Koten, CERGE-EI, Competition in the EU Electricity and Gas Markets (Loyola de Palacio Programme)

Hannes Weigt, Dresden University of Technology, Interaction of Transmission and Generation Investment in Liberalized Electricity Markets (FSR)

Jacob Weisdorf, University of Copenhagen, The Child Quantity-Quality Trade-off in Historical Europe: A Comparative Study

Stepan Wood, York University, ISO 26000 and the Legitimation of Transnational Governance Authority in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibilty (Global Governance Programme)

Marie Curie Fellows 2010/11Christine Arnold, University of Maastricht, Public Opinion Trends and Policy-Making in the EU (joint with SPS)

Danilo Di Mauro, University of Siena, Initial Training Net-work in Electoral Democracy (ELECDEM)

Christian Kaunert, University of Salford, Agencies in the EU Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: Frontex, Europol and Eurojust

Daniel Monterescu, Central European University Budapest The Limits of Peaceful Co-existence: Jewish-Arab Relations, Urban Space and State Violence in Palestinian-Israeli Mixed Towns, 1882 to the Present (until December 2010)

Cornelius Torp, Martin-Luther University of Halle-Witten-berg, Age, Inequality and Social Justice: Britain and Germany since 1945 (joint with HEC)

EU Fellows 2010/11Wilhelm Lehmann, European Parliament, Representative Democracy Revisited: The Role of Electoral Procedures and Reform in the Evolution of Federal Systems

Josep Lloveras Soler, European Commission, Towards a European Diplomatic Academy


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Visiting Fellows (as confirmed in September 2010)Melanie Antoniou, EUI, Multilateralism between ‘Legal Power Europe’ and US’s Grand Strategy

Fabiana Di Porto, University of Perugia, Regulatory Powers of Competition Authorities

Aurélie Gfeller, Making Europeans: The Transformative Pow-ers of the European Parliament, 1969-1986 (FNS fellowship)

Paul Gillespie, The Irish Times and University College Dub-lin, Political Identity and European Integration

Francesco Gulli, Bocconi University, Energy and Environ-mental Economics

Ahmet Idcuygu, Koc University, Emigration/Immigration Issues within the Context of EU-Turkey Relations

Takeshi Ito, School of Law, Senshu University, Restructuring of Territoriality and the Changes in Party Competition and Policy-Making in Contemporary Europe

Chantal Lavallée, University of Québec, Between Innovations and Resistances: The Role of the European Commission in the European Security Governance (FQRSC fellowship)

Giorgio Natalicchi, University of Florence, Internal and External Frontiers of EU’s Regulatory Authority

Luca Paladini, EUI, EU and International Criminal Tribunals

Ritsa Panagiotou, Centre for Planning and Economic Re-search, The EU’s Balkan Enlargement: How Will it Be Affected by the Global Economic Crisis?

Angela Romano, EUI, How to Deal with the Soviets? The Transatlantic Debate During the ‘Second Cold War’

Martin Wortmann, Insitute of Technology and Management Pulheim and University of Applied Science FHM Bielefeld, Technology and Innovation

Research Assistants and Research Fellows with at least a half-time contract (as of September 2010)Nicole Ahner, FSR, Loyola de Palacio ProgrammeFrancesco Barbieri, EUCITAC, ERDValentina Bettin, EUDOErnesto Bonafé, FSR Anissa Boulemia, FSR, IERNFabian Breuer, EUDOCharlotte Bué, ERDEleonora Carcascio, Global Governance ProgrammeFederica Casarosa, MEDIADEMManuele Citi, EUDOAngela Conte, FSRAli Coskun Tuncer, INMARWELAdrien De Hautecloque, FSR, Loyola de Palacio ProgrammeEric Delarue, THINKSilvia Dell’Acqua, CARIMPauline Depierreux, CARIMCamilla Devitt, METOIKOSAnna Di Bartolomeo, CARIMMatteo Di Castelnuovo, FSRAleksandra Djajic, MRM, Migration Summer SchoolRicardo Fernandes Paixao, INMARWELMaren Frömel, INMARWELGary Hemming, CARIMThibaud Jaulin, CARIMIfigeneia Kokkali, ACCEPT PLURALISMSiok Jen Liong, THINKLuca Mancini, ERDAntonio Manganelli, FSRThanos Maroukis, METOIKOSMel Marquis, Competition Law WorkshopLeonardo Meeus, THINKEmanuela Michetti, FSRStefania Milan, EUDOLuis Olmos, THINKSara Pecchioli, INMARWELYannick Perez, Loyola de Palacio ProgrammeDelphine Perrin, CARIMAlberto Pototschnig, FSRAndrea Rosa, FSRAlessandro Rubino, FSR, IERNSophia Rüster, THINKGiambattista Salinari, CARIM, EU-US Immigration SystemsMarco Sanfilippo, ERDSophie Schmitt, CONSENSUSMax Schulze, INMARWELSaverio Simonelli, PEGGEDBas Van Bockel, Global Governance ProgrammeAnnika Zorn, FSRConvento di San Domenico


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