Marcello Messori is a part-time Professor at the Schuman Centre, European University Institute, where he is also a member of the EMU-Lab. He is a non-resident Fellow at the Institute for European Policy Making, Bocconi University, and co-coordinator of the ‘Gruppo Europa’ at the Astrid Foundation. He has been the coordinator of a group of advisers for the European Parliament, a Professor of Economics at LUISS and University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Visiting Professor at various European