It is “Risks and fatal choices. Europe at the crossroads” is the title identified by the Advisory Board for the 20th edition of the Trento Economic Festival, scheduled from 22 to 25 May 2025, organized for the fourth consecutive year by the 24 ORE Group and Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento and with the collaboration of the Municipality and the University of Trento.
A title that reflects the great changes that the outcome of the elections in the United States will produce on the international scene, starting from global geopolitical and macroeconomic balances. There are numerous risks and choices that we will face and which will impact Europe: crucial issues that the Trento Economics Festival will address with the contribution of the brightest minds in the economic, academic and political world at a national and international level. next May in a special edition that will celebrate the 20 years of the event.
Explains the President of the Advisory Board and of the Scientific Committee of the Trento Economics Festival Fabio Tamburini, Director of Il Sole 24 Ore: “Le American elections represented a historic turning pointopening up to scenarios of great changes: the return of state power, globalization which is unlikely to reassert itself, the development of international trade which is contracting, squeezed by the increasingly strong polarization between the United States and China. Europe, between lackluster economies and lack of leadership, it is more and more an earthenware vase between two iron vases. Its future is linked to choices that will have to be made and which are not to be taken for granted.”
Adds Tamburini: “These scenarios are then looming variable artificial intelligence which, in addition to changing the world as we know it, draws attention to the large amount of energy it requires and where to find it. Big changes and unknowns about risks and choices to be made because they will affect the direction in which the world will go.”
With its new title, the Trento Economics Festival continues its commitment to analyzing the challenges dictated by a global scenario characterized by high complexity and uncertainty, proposing solutions and interpretations. In 2022, in fact, the theme “After the pandemic, between order and disorder” aimed to delve into the profound social, economic and political effects of the pandemic, while the 2023 edition entitled “The future of the future. The challenges of a new world” has undertaken to outline the impact that great technological and socio-economic transformations will have on humanity.
In 2024 with “Quo vadis? The dilemmas of our time” the Festival analyzed the great questions that our time poses to us, from the worsening of conflicts in the world to the growth of inflation and public debt, from climate change to the demographic winter.
The title of the 2025 edition of the Festival was chosen by the Advisory Board of the Trento Economics Festival composed of Elena Beccalli, Marco Fortis, Paolo Magri, Emma Marcegaglia, Giulio Sapelli, Giulio Tremonti and Fabio Tamburini (president).
The scientific committee composed of Professor Ericka Costa, associate of Business Economics of the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Trento, Professor Luigi Bonatti, full professor of Economic Policy at the University of Trento, economic historian Adriana Castagnoli, former professor of contemporary history at the University of Turin.
The 2024 edition
The 19th edition of the Trento Economics Festival, which saw for the third time the 24 ORE Group together with Trentino Marketing in the role of organizers on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento and with the collaboration of the Municipality of Trento and the University of Trento, it was the edition of the record of records: beyond 700 speakers and moderators in 330 events between Festivals, “Out of Festival” (new for 2022), “Economies of the Territories”, “Meetings with the author” and the live event broadcasts of Radio 24, with over 40,000 attendees in the city and sold out in many locations crowded with the economic, academic and scientific community, and the public of families, young people and students.