Marco Buti
Marco Buti is a Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in fiscal policy, European monetary union (EMU) and structural reform, on which he has published extensively.
He covers the political economy of European integration, unemployment, welfare state reforms, the EU budget and global economic governance.
He speaks English, Italian and French.
Marco holds the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair in economic and monetary integration at at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute. He is a member of the CEPR Research Policy Network and an external expert of the European Policy Centre. Previously, he was Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni. Prior to that, he was Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission and economic advisor to the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi. He has been a visiting professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Università degli Studi di Firenze and the European University Institute. He holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
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Featured work
The Promise of a Middle-Power Alliance
The World’s Two Largest Economies Should Slow Their Investment Race
Three ‘don’ts’ to protect Greenland from Trump
When confronting the Greenland crisis, the EU should apply lessons learned from the lopsided US-EU trade negotiations
Can the Dutch tail wag the EU budgetary dog?
A new pro-European government in the Netherlands could set a beneficial example by departing from traditional Dutch stinginess on the EU budget
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30 January 2026
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14 January 2026
First Glance
08 January 2026
Three ‘don’ts’ to protect Greenland from Trump
When confronting the Greenland crisis, the EU should apply lessons learned from the lopsided US-EU trade negotiations
First Glance
04 December 2025
Can the Dutch tail wag the EU budgetary dog?
A new pro-European government in the Netherlands could set a beneficial example by departing from traditional Dutch stinginess on the EU budget
First Glance
03 November 2025
The European Parliament gets it wrong on the European Commission’s 2028-2034 budget
Rather than protecting outdated programmes, MEPs should push for a larger EU budget and safeguards to match strategic goals
First Glance
08 July 2025
When Greece was on the brink of euro exit: disaster averted, lessons learned
There are good arguments for greater European integration, but it must be built on trust, not spun out of crisis
First Glance
01 July 2025
How Europe can live with NATO’s ill-conceived defence spending target
A joint approach to defence as a European public good is the only viable option for EU countries to spend 5% of GDP on defence
Event
21 May 2025
Lessons from the Euro crisis and EU-US relations between crises, shared values and geopolitical tension
What does the future hold for the transatlantic partnership?
First Glance
24 April 2025
Which countries will be pivotal for the success of EU defence funding instruments?
History shows that decisions by single EU countries can determine whether member states as a whole take up new European initiatives
First Glance
03 April 2025
Retaliation against US tariffs is the EU’s only real option
The impact of phased tariffs on US goods and services is worth the immediate cost to Europe