Andrea Lorenzo Capussela has a PhD on competition policy. After a few years in the private sector, he served as the head of the economics unit of Kosovo’s international supervisor, the International Civilian Office, in 2008–11, and as the adviser to Moldova’s economy minister and deputy prime minister, on behalf of the EU. He then took a sabbatical period, during which he wrote one book (State-building in Kosovo: Democracy, Corruption and the EU in the Balkans, I.B. Tauris: London, 2015), is conducting research on another one, and is doing some voluntary work on the development of a district in Calabria.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy's cash tragedy - help stop the Italian government from making a terrible mistakeA new proposal by the Italian government will almost certainly favour tax evasion in a country where it is already...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reforms in Italy: the political economy of accounting fraudLast May, Italy’s parliament tightened criminal sanctions for accounting fraud. A few weeks later the Italian...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Corruption in Italy: a resilient equilibriumCorruption in Italy is a well-established fact. Combined pressure from internal and external sources might perhaps...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Italy's Jobs Act: where is the evidence?The Italian Senate passed the Jobs Act earlier this month with much opposition from unions. But will the reform of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Ancient cities and new politics in southern ItalyItaly's corrupt and inefficient public services mean that some of the country's most important archaeological sites...