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      • Meeting in digital format
        • 9 February 2022
         
         

        New businesses, skills, generations

        Due not least to the disruption brought on by the pandemic, the early part of this decade has been marked by two macro-trends: the pervasiveness of technology and a rising number of new businesses.
        The second of these is being sustained by an unprecedented influx of risk capital that helps to attract the sort of talent capable of best combining key skill sets and exceptional motivation.

      • Meeting in digital format
        • 8 February 2022
         
         

        Global Tax: business opportunities and challenges

        The concept of a global, transnational tax is nothing new. The idea was first broached around a hundred years ago in the League of Nations during the First World War. Although not yet global in scope, talks were already underway regarding the territorial authority to tax oil companies operating in countries different to where they were incorporated. Those sessions gave birth to the “stable organization” concept still in use within the framework of international taxation.

      • Meeting in digital format
        • 31 January 2022
         
         

        Challenges for Italy’s foremost industries: innovation and sustainability

        Italy’s 2021 economic recovery, an excellent sign for the future, was led especially by domestic consumption and other segments such as construction that enjoyed the benefits of fiscal incentives, and thus offers a good point of departure for 2022. This despite national and global level threats that include increased energy and raw materials prices, the slowdown triggered by the fourth pandemic wave, and bureaucratic snags that could obstruct the timely manufacture and consignment of the machinery needed for the digital transition.

      • Meeting in digital format
        • 5 April 2022
         
         

        Corporate finance. The geopolitics of currencies and crypto-currency development

          The dollar remains strong and, despite a few crises, is still the world’s preeminent reserve currency. The euro, on the other hand – although it does represent a solid and advanced economy – has not managed to become a reserve currency capable of replacing the dollar. The currency “multipolarism” now emerging – difficult to construct yet certainly inexorable – is going to include the phenomenon of cryptocurrencies. The trend is toward a multipolar system with one dollar/euro area and another consisting of many of those currencies currently located outside that area.

        • Meeting in digital format
          • 28 February 2022
           
           

          The energy we need: An intergenerational outlook

            The European Union and its member states have been ramping up efforts over the past two years to combat climate change and decarbonize as many sectors as possible, from standpoints of both policy and the economy. The European Commission published its Green Deal in December 2019 and subsequent Fit-For-55 legislative package in July 2021, which set some very ambitious decarbonization goals. These included a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (as compared with 1990 values) by the end of 2030 and complete carbon neutrality within the year 2050.

          • Meeting in digital format
            • 10 December 2021
             
             

            Aspen Italy/France Forum

              Italy and France have solid relations built on a common history of strong economic and cultural ties. An important addition to those relations is the Quirinale Treaty signed in Rome on November 26. This strengthening of bilateral cooperation is crucial, in the first place, to the future of European economic governance. In the coming months, fiscal policy rules will be written into a revised Stability and Growth Pact within the framework of the French EU presidency. New rules on State Aid will also be outlined along with a framework of reforms needed to make the continent more competitive.

              14 October 2021
               
               

              The New Organization of Labor and Corporate Choices

              Rome, 14 October 2021 – Aspen Institute Italia, in partnership with ENEL, will be holding an Aspenia Talk on “The post-Covid economic paradigm: the future of work and business” in digital mode. The panel will be held on the Zoom platform and will be open to the press.

            • Venice
              • 10 October 2021
               
               

              Aspen Collective Mind Seminar: Industrial processes, Cultural processes

                At first glance, culture and technology may appear mutually exclusive categories, but that has not always been the case. The Italian Classical and Renaissance traditions were a continuous intermingling of humanism and science that only the twentieth century interrupted. Reuniting them to create a “polytechnic culture” could prove fundamental to confronting major changes, such as the digital and environmental transitions, that are now having a radical effect on daily life and habits and will continue to do so in the future.

              • Meeting in digital format
                • 28 September 2021
                 
                 

                The post Merkel Germany: implications for Europe and the US

                  The September 26 German elections could not but be influenced by the figure of Angela Merkel. Her principal legacy is probably to have been a master crisis manager and a pillar of political stability, but she has not staked her career on promoting a truly comprehensive and ambitious vision for Europe. Even regarding the pursuit of German national interests, an overall assessment of her profile as a leader must take into account several missed opportunities for renewal and perhaps even excessive prudence.