XX EDITION - 22-25 MAY 2025 - "Risks and fatal choices. Europe at the crossroads"

A title that reflects the great changes that the outcome of the elections in the United States will produce on the international chessboard, starting from the global geopolitical and macroeconomic balances. There are numerous risks and choices that we will face and that will impact Europe: crucial issues that the Festival dell 'Economia di Trento will address with the contribution of the brightest minds of the economic, academic and political world at national and international level next May in a special edition that will celebrate the 20 years of the event.
With the new title, the Festival dell 'Economia di Trento continues its commitment to analyzing the challenges dictated by a world scenario characterized by high complexity and uncertainty, proposing solutions and keys to understanding. In 2022, in fact, the theme "After the pandemic, between order and disorder" aimed to deepen 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 "undertook to outline the impact that major technological and socio-economic transformations will have on humanity. In 2024 with "Quo vadis? The dilemmas of our time"the Festival analysed 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.