Venezie Institute

The Venezie Institute is a research unit of the Confederazione Veneziana movement. Its mission is to assess the institutional, social and economic challenges currently facing the Venices* (North East Italy) and to write analyses and generate proposals based on the principles of free enterprise, institutional integrity, limited government and individual liberty.

The Institute aims to approach every single institutional, social and economic issue from an international point of view, and proposed solutions will be based on in-depth research and analysis of successful foreign settings.

The Venezie Institute also publishes books, research papers, and short studies, prepared by its own experts or in collaboration with renowned foreign experts. With the aim of creating a lasting desire for reform, the Institute then actively promotes these publications by means of public debates, conferences, and mass- media appearances, and by direct mailing to journalists, academics, politicians, business people and the general public, in Venetia*.

The Venezie Institute does not participate in the consultation process or in political campaigns, and does not take a stand for or against any political party. The Institute is willing to cooperate with any group interested in bringing about institutional, social and economic changes in the Venices based on the aforementioned principles.

The Venezie Institute is completely independent of any political party, religious or economic interest group. This independence is ensured, on one hand, by a conscious diversification in its base of financial support and, on the other hand, by the integrity of the members of its Board of Directors and its Advisory Council.

Current projects

*PENSION REFORM - in collaboration with Prof. Jose Pinera (Cato Institute - USA)

*FLAT TAX - in collaboration with Prof. Alvin Rabushka (Hoover Institution - USA)

*GLOBALIZATION - in collaboration with Johan Norberg (Timbro Institute - Sweden)

*ISLAM and the MIDDLE EAST - in collaboration with Dr. Joshua Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute - USA)

(*) For the purpose of the Institute's work, the words "Venices", "Venetia" and "Northeast Italy" are interchangeable, and are taken as meaning the historical Venices within Northern Italy - i.e. the current italian regions of Venezia Tridentina-Sud Tirol/Alto Adige, Venezia Euganea, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and the current provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona (i.e. Venezia Orobica), and Mantua.