In this interview excerpt, Ignazio Visco, economist, senior official at the Bank of Italy since 1971 and Governor of the Bank of Italy since 2011, describes the approach to economics developed by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.

In this interview excerpt, Ignazio Visco, economist, senior official at the Bank of Italy since 1971 and Governor of the Bank of Italy since 2011, outlines the European vision of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.

In this interview excerpt, Ignazio Visco, economist, senior official at the Bank of Italy since 1971 and Governor of the Bank of Italy since 2011, describes how Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa viewed his role as Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.

In this interview excerpt, Ignazio Visco, economist, senior official at the Bank of Italy since 1971 and Governor of the Bank of Italy since 2011, describes his memories of the personality of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, who was Deputy Director General of the Bank of Italy from 1984 to 1997, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2005 and Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.

This video, dated 19 December 2013, presents the composition, organisation and operation of the European Parliament and its areas of responsibility.

The third panel of the DHLU 2013 Symposium, moderated by Marten Düring, Researcher at the CVCE, explores the topic ‘Writing history & assessing scholarship’ through two presentations. The first, by Luke Kirwan, is entitled ‘Quantitative historical research in the digital age: Using databases to drive research forward’. The second presentation is by Eva Wohlfarter, group member of the ABaC:us project run by the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, on the subject ‘Introducing the Austrian baroque corpus: Annotation and application of a thematic research collection’.

The fourth panel of the DHLU 2013 Symposium, moderated by Serge Noiret from the European University Institute in Florence, focuses on the theme ‘Distant/close reading’. Dr Waltraud Bayer gives a presentation entitled ‘Digital sources in contemporary post-Soviet museum studies’. Ian Gregory then speaks on ‘Distant and close readings of the geographies in large corpora: Geographical text analysis and place-based reading’.

The fifth panel of the DHLU 2013 symposium, moderated by Lars Wieneke, Head of the CVCE’s Information and Technology Department, features two presentations on the topic ‘Distant/close reading’. Dorothée Goetze and Tobias Tenhaef from the University of Bonn’s Institute for Historical Peace Research give a presentation on ‘How to face the crisis of legitimacy: the transfer and further development of methods of access from printed to digitalized editions’. The panel concludes with a presentation by Luis Gil Tiago entitled ‘Atlas numérique de l’Amérique portugaise’.

In this interview excerpt, Joseph Weyland, Permanent Representative to the European Communities from 1984 to 1991, recalls the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the European Union from July to December 1985 and describes the negotiations that led to the signing of the Single European Act. He also emphasises the close cooperation between the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) and the European Commission in the drafting of this treaty, particularly regarding the number of areas where decisions could be taken by a qualified majority and the extension of the powers of the European Parliament.

The sixth panel, which concludes this DHLU 2013 Symposium, explores the theme ‘Writing history’. The panel is moderated by Susana Muñoz, Head of the CVCE’s European Integration Studies Department. Kate Jones presents her paper entitled ‘Digital history with maps: A case study from WW2 in London’. Geert Kessels and Pim van Bree, software engineers at LAB1100, then present their research on ‘Multiple forms of authorship through the assemblage of historical objects’.