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About Alessandro Bramucci

Alessandro Bramucci is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Urbino and is completing a Master in International Economics at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Articles by Alessandro Bramucci

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Manuel Serrano is Junior Editor at DemocraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

European economic forecasts: why do they get it wrong?

Mario Pianta and Alessandro Bramucci 7 January 2013

The European Central Bank's forecasts misread Europe’s economy three times out of four. And the European Commission, the OECD and the Bundesbank didn't do any better. What is wrong with the mainstream view of how the economy works?