Niccolo Donati

Niccolò Donati holds a Ph.D. in Political Studies from the University of Milan. His main research interests concern the budgetary politics and policy of the EU, EU Cohesion policy, and the role of narratives in explaining the conflict dynamics in the EU.

niccolo.donati@unimi.it

4 February 2022

European solidarity at a crossroads. REScEU Mass Survey 2019.

By Niccolo Donati, Alessandro Pellegata and Francesco Visconti

This REScEU Mass Survey Report analyses the relevant results of a public opinion survey conducted in a sample of ten EU member states – Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden – in July 2019, just after the European Parliament (EP) elections held in May 2019.

5 March 2021

EAPN Poverty Watch 2020 online conference: is COVID supercharging poverty in the EU?

By Niccolo Donati

The year 2020 has transformed the challenge posed by poverty to all of Europe. Through increased functional pressure and restricted accessibility to what are deemed necessary resources (such as healthcare), the risk of poverty has risen manyfold. Now, the EU is at a turning point: either it fights poverty or it will allow poverty to rise to an unprecedented level.

27 February 2021

EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EASI): Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

The EaSI programme is the main instrument through which the EU delivers its social innovation policy. It is a Swiss Army knife policy tool that includes three different instruments to achieve its goals. The programme comprises three axes, each representing a different facet of social innovation.

26 January 2021

European Green Deal: A change of perspective from the Commission?

By Giovanni Simioni and Niccolo Donati

The “Just Transition” approach has gained traction in recent years. It can be best conceptualised not as a rival approach to “Green Growth”, insofar as it does incorporate the concept of Green Growth and many of its policy instruments.

16 January 2021

Article 50: self-destruct button or safety valve?

By Anna Kyriazi and Niccolo Donati

As the Brexit process has finally concluded, this post goes back to the beginning asking why the EU has established the right to unilateral withdrawal, in the first place?

8 July 2020

The EU Health Programme: Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

This policy dossier is part of a series of analyses of the financial instruments available to the European Social Union (ESU). The Health Programme is an EU fund which fosters cooperation among EU countries in the Health field. The dossier will deal with the Health Programme history, policy goals, budget, and visibility.

16 May 2020

The European Solidarity Fund: Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

During the recent COVID-19 outbreak, the concept of EU solidarity has become central to the EU debate. In this policy dossier, our objective is to analyse the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF), an instrument created in 2002 to aid Member States hit by an unforeseeable natural calamity.

9 March 2020

The European Social Fund: Policy Dossier

By Niccolo Donati

This policy dossier is part of a series of analyses on the financial instruments available to the European Social Union (ESU). The European Social Fund is one of the longest-standing instruments of supranational policy available to the EU. The dossier will deal with the ESF history, policy goals, budget and visibility.

24 May 2019

The EU cohesion policy under the next MFF: winners and losers across Europe’s twin peripheries

By Niccolo Donati

For the MFF 2021–2027, Member States have decided not to increase the EU budget, despite the adverse consequences that the Great Recession had on many European territories. As a consequence, cohesion policy, in 2021–2027, will be too small a blanket to cater to the needs of the Eastern and Southern peripheries adequately.

8 February 2019

The illiberal trend in Europe – a Reset DOC workshop

By Niccolo Donati

By describing the EU as a composite polity, Fabbrini argues that it should strive to become a federal union. This path allows us to understand how one of the most fundamental elements is still severely lacking from the European construction: political equality.

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«There is no doubt that we live in highly specialised societies. The political problems that we deal with are however quite similar. So maybe a starting point to better understand an appropriate conception of solidarity for the EU could be the idea of a “mechanical” attitude in the Durkheimian sense. However, conviction to be part of a joint political project, rather than fear of suffering alone, should be the guiding principle of solidarity in the EU»

Niccolo Donati

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