Opinions

According to the EBA, asset losses for bad loans and faulty investments could reach 71 billion euros for the top 51 European banks, in a phenomenon of generalized misconduct which has grown larger with time. But financial abuse can be curtailed not only by having banks pay heavy fines, but also by putting in place preemptive tools, like protecting whistleblowers

Because the law is transparent, open, can be verified by prosecutors and defendants alike, and is the only way to ensure justice and fairness

Although the Netherlands are usually seen as a land of environmental sustainability, it lags behind Italy in the fullfillment of power generation targets set by the EU climate energy package for 2020

Shaping election results in Italy from the postwar period to the First Republic were the effects and duration of the Nazi occupation and the civil war. The memory and actions of voters on either side of the Gothic line demonstrate this. As Tabellini, Nannicini and Fontana observe in a working paper

State capitalism has reinvented itself, changing from an entrepreneur to an investor. And, after years of filling holes in the budget, thanks to a changing macroeconomic outlook, there is now a return to investing longterm

EU and Italian regulations and uncertainty about the cost of building water treatment plants that adopt the logic of the circular economy are two obstacles hindering the development of wastewater and sewage sludge as raw materials