Meet Simone Slusarz | EUFutures affiliated student

Our section, EUFutures Affiliated Researchers and Students, continues to showcase the work of emerging scholars who collaborate with the EUFutures Jean Monnet Center of Excellence. In this feature, we introduce Simone Slusarz, Master’s student in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs at the University of Bologna.

His Master’s thesis examines how EU crisis governance influences populist and Eurosceptic contestation across different European economic models. Specifically, he is developing a European Political Economy framework to analyze how EU crisis legitimacy (input, output, and throughput) is articulated by populist discourse. Through this lens, his project aims to explain why anti-system contestation varies between creditor and debtor states, contributing to current debates on the political economy of the EU's polycrisis and sustainable growth

📹 Watch the video to hear directly from Simone Slusarz as he presents the main objectives of his research project.