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Maria Chiara, the Most European of Bocconi Students

, by Fabio Todesco
Enrolled in the last year of Law, the student authored the paper on Banking Union presented at the annual conference of a project promoted by Fondazione Boroli and Bocconi, in the presence of Bini Smaghi and Monti

Maria Chiara De Biasio will only graduate in October, but a paper of hers has already been presented at a conference, on Tuesday, 19 April, at the presence of Lorenzo Bini Smaghi (a member of ECB Executive Board from 2005 to 2011 and currently Chairman of Société Générale and SNAM) and Mario Monti.

Her work , on constitutional and public law aspects of the European Banking Union, has been chosen in the framework of Europeans. Bocconi-Boroli Days on Europe, a three-year project by Fondazione Achille e Giulia Boroli and Università Bocconi aimed to raise awareness of the European Union among the young and a general audience.

A different European topic is tackled every year, sustaining people's interest through a succession of a seminar, papers and a conference. Tuesday's conference closed the first year of the project.

Last October the Banking Union topic was analyzed in both financial and legal aspects at a seminar, thanks to a scientific committee including Lorenzo Cuocolo, professor of comparative public law and responsible for the series, Luigi Arturo Bianchi, professor of company and business law, Donato Masciandaro, professor of economics, and Elena Carletti, professor of banking. The four professors have, then, judged the papers submitted by students and selected Maria Chiara's.

"With my paper", Maria Chiara says, "I wanted to highlight the fact that the Banking Union is not a purely technical topic. It affects the relations between ECB, national authorities and other European institutions; it affects national sovereignty, as other national powers are being transferred; and it affects personal rights and companies".

The paper, for Maria Chiara, is only the last stage of an outstanding academic career. She's already been the recipient of a Merit Award, the grants assigned by Bocconi University on the exclusive basis of merit (no financial constraint to eligibility).

And yet, the choice of a Law program at Bocconi was a last minute move for Maria Chiara. After her high school degree in Mestre (Venice) she intended to enroll in a scientific program. "Finally I chose Law because I thought it would allow a wider range of occupational opportunities. And I went for Bocconi because in its Law program economics play a major role. When I was an intern in a large Law practice, during the last semester, I understood that knowledge of economics is a true strength".

Next year Europeans will tackle the topic of social rights in Europe.

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