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Elena Casali

Elena Casali holds a BA in Economics, Politics and Social Sciences from the University of Bologna and an MA in Transnational Governance from the European University Institute (EUI), which she completed with distinction. Her thesis examined the European Commission as a narrator of the future. She is still based at the EUI in Florence, and her work focuses on European institutions, deliberative democracy, and civic education.

Signal, Strategy, or Self-Repair: Three Ways to Read the EU’s New Partnership with Central Asia

October 30, 2026

Early analysis of the recent €12 billion Global Gateway Initiative points to three distinct ways of understanding the partnership: as a geopolitical strategy to... Read more.