Festival dell'Economia - Trento

XX EDITION | 22-25 MAY 2025

RISKS AND FATAL CHOICES. EUROPE AT THE CROSSROADS
 

The title echoes the major changes that the outcome of the elections in the United States will bring to the international chessboard, starting with the global geopolitical and macroeconomic checks and balances. There are several risks, but also choices that need to be made and that will impact Europe. These are crucial issues that the Trento Festival of Economics will address with the contribution of the brightest minds in the economic, academic, and political world at national and international levels. This special edition will mark the 20th anniversary of the event.
With its new title, the Trento Festival of Economics reaffirms its commitment to analysing the challenges of a world scenario characterised by high complexity and uncertainty. It aims to propose solutions and interpretation keys. In 2022, the theme “After the pandemic, between order and disorder” sought to deepen the pandemic's far-reaching social, economic and political effects. The 2023 edition, entitled “The future of the future. The challenges of a new world” undertook to outline the impact of sweeping technological and socio-economic transformations on humanity. In 2024 with “Quo vadis? The dilemmas of our time” the Festival addressed the pivotal issues of our era: from the worsening of conflicts worldwide to the growth of inflation and public debt, from climate change to the demographic winter. Read the Manifesto.