Articles by Sergio Fabbrini

March 15, 2024

The pitfalls of the EU’s multiple presidency system

Sergio Fabbrini

Charles Michel had agreed to stand down early as President of the European Council so he could run for the European Parliament. Recently, however, he changed his mind. Sergio Fabbrini argues this highlights the disadvantages of the EU multiple presidency system, leaving the EU without a single representatives of its interests

Mario Draghi has bigger ambitions than just seeing Italy through to the next general election

Sergio Fabbrini

Although appointed unexpectedly, Mario Draghi is much more than just a stop-gap, technocratic Prime Minister. Sergio Fabbrini argues that Draghi's vision for Europe could make Italy one of the key voices in the European debate

Sergio Fabbrini

Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Intesa Sanpaolo Chair on European Governance and Dean of the Political Science Department at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome

Sergio was the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government 2019–2020.

He won the 2017 Spinelli Prize, the 2011 Capalbio Prize for Europe, the 2009 Filippo Burzio Prize for the Political Sciences and the 2006 Amalfi European Prize for the Social Sciences.

He was member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on European Union.

He has published twenty books, two co-authored books and twenty edited or co-edited books or journal special issues, and several hundred scientific articles and essays in seven languages in the most important peer-reviewed international journals, in the fields of Comparative politics, European Union institutions and politics, US politics and political theory.

His most recent publications in English include

Europe’s Future: Decoupling and Reforming
Cambridge University Press, 2019

Sergio is also political editor for the Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore and currently Special Advisor to Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni on EU governance issues.

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