List Figures List Tables Foreword; Claudio Cecchi (PhD, Director of Eurosapienza, Research Center on European International and Development Studies) Preface: Italy in the European context: What has changed pending Horizon 2020; Donatella Strangio and Giuseppe Sancetta PART I: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES 1. The Italian Monetary policy in perspective: lessons from monetary history of Italy before the EMU; Mauro Rota and Donatella Strangio 2. Immigration policies in the EU: failure or success? Evidences from Italy; Elena Ambrosetti and Angela Paparusso 3. Income inequality in Italy: tendencies and policy implications; Maurizio Franzini and Michele Raitano 4. Digital inequality in Italy and Europe; Debora Di Gioacchino, Adriana Lotti and Simone Tedeschi PART II: BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENT 5. Fashion firms and counterfeiting: causes and actions; Alberto Pastore and Ludovica Cesareo 6. A bottom up approach to unlevered risk in a financial and managerial perspective; Antonio Renzi, Giuseppe Sancetta and Beatrice Orlando 7. European Economic Development and the Environment; Luca Mocarelli 8. The multiple effects of energy efficiency on Green Economy; Maurizio Boccacci Mariani 9. Climate change and reproductive intentions in Europe; Alessandra De Rose and Maria Rita Testa Index.