Research > EU, politics and institutions

  • Dialoghi di cittadinanza sul futuro dell’Europa

    Within the Conference on the Future of Europe, launched in 2020 by the European Parliament and the Commission, the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) will set up three Citizens’ Dialogues to...

    Start/End: 2020 - current

  • DiCE - Differentiation: Clustering Excellence

    DiCE – a three year project funded by the EU – aims to translate state-of-the-art research into policy-relevant advice on appropriate approaches to differentiation tendencies and proposals,...

    Start/End: 2020 - 2022

  • EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability – EU IDEA

    The recent evolution of the European Union’s politics and policies has demonstrated that differentiation can no longer be treated as an anomaly in the integration process. This has posed a key set...

    Start/End: 2019 - current

  • Europea. Parlano i fatti

    In the six months preceding the European vote on May 26th, 2019, the Europea.info portal – a consortium led by IAI with Centro Studi sul Federalismo (CSF), Centro Studi di Politica Internazionale...

    Start/End: 2018 - current

  • A new European Consensus on Asylum & Migration

    In view of the upcoming policy cycle of the European Union, the project, coordinated by IAI and the Migration Policy Institute Europe (MPI Europe) aimed at fostering debate and identifying policy...

    Start/End: 2018 - current

  • Europe's External Action and the Dual Challenges of Limited Statehood and Contested Orders - EU-LISTCO

    Two sources of risks characterise the EU’s regional and global security environments: 1) areas of limited statehood (ALS), in which central government authorities and institutions are too weak to...

    Start/End: 2018 - 2021

  • Towards a Citizens’ Union - 2CU

    While anti-EU parties’ political narratives are build on the idea of ‘taking back control’, recent Eurobarometer polls suggest that European citizens want to see a better functioning EU in core...

    Start/End: 2017 - current

  • European Think-Tanks Group (ETTG)

    IAI is part of the European Think Tanks Group (ETTG) together with four other leading European international cooperation think tanks: the German Development Institute (DIE), the European Centre...

    Start/End: 2017 - current

  • German-Italian Strategic Forum on Europe

    This project, developed in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Office in Rome and the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, fills a gap in the already intense and...

    Start/End: 2016 - current

  • Open European Dialogue (former Mercator European Dialogue)

    Over the past few years, the debates within and among EU member states on political issues have become more intense and often controversial. Following the Treaty of Lisbon, national parliaments...

    Start/End: 2015 - current