It will be a special edition that from May 22 to 25, 2025 will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Trento Festival of Economics, an event that has grown and renewed itself over the years, thanks in part to the new formula devised by the 24 Ore Group together with Trentino Marketing in the role of organizers on behalf of the Autonomous Province of Trento and with the contribution of the Municipality of Trento and the University of Trento. A winning formula that has led the event to grow extraordinarily, hosting more than 100,000 attendees in three years. Adding to the value of the Festival's 20th anniversary edition is the fact that this year Trento will also christen the first of the initiatives designed to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the paper Il Sole 24 Ore, which will culminate in November. It could only be the city of the Festival of Economics to kick off the celebrations of Italy's longest-running financial economic newspaper, which was founded in 1865 under the title Il Sole. Two exhibitions in the capital of Trentino will pay homage to the anniversaries of the Festival and Il Sole 24 Ore, along with many other initiatives that will involve the event's audience. For the occasion, the festival will be preceded by a special preview: on Saturday, April 12, Bank of Italy Governor Fabio Panetta will speak on the stage of the Teatro Sociale for a special meeting dedicated to secondary school and university students. He will be interviewed by 10 young students along with Il Sole 24 Ore editor Fabio Tamburini. The same morning will see the opening at Fondazione Caritro of the exhibition "The adventure of money: from gold to digital" created in collaboration with MUDEM - the Bank of Italy's Museum of Money, which can be visited from April 12 to May 25, 2025. The preview will allow people to start reflecting on the theme that will be the theme of the 2025 edition of the Festival: "Fatal Risks and Choices. Europe at the Crossroads". A theme of stringent topicality, chosen by the Advisory Board of the event, chaired by Il Sole 24 Ore Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of the Scientific Committee Fabio Tamburini and composed of Elena Beccalli, Marco Fortis, Paolo Magri, Emma Marcegaglia, Giulio Sapelli, and Giulio Tremonti. The emblematic title may seem obvious today, but in November, when it was chosen in the aftermath of the U.S. elections, it was able to immediately capture the situation that Europe was destined to face with the Trump presidency and that today is before everyone's eyes. A Europe in crisis of leadership, increasingly crushed by the new economic policy of the United States and blocked by its own governance and bureaucracy, which must find itself again by facing major risks and decisive choices.