# Blog, Interviews

Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act

Oped published on Bruegel, Welt, LeMonde, and others. Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election Europeans might think that a K...

4th November 2024 by Alexandr Burilkov, Guntram Wolff 3 views

# Blog, Interviews

Less complacency, more investment: a European defence procurement strategy would be cheaper

Oped published in Handelsblatt, Corriere della Serra, Helsingin, Bruegel and others. Two and a half years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the question of armaments and the speed of military procurement a...

11th October 2024 by Guntram Wolff 73 views

# Interviews

Докато Европа не признае, че Русия е заплаха, няма как да реши отбранителния си проблем

Interview in Capital.bg...

11th October 2024 by Guntram Wolff 64 views

# Teaching

Seminar: The economics of climate change

In the summer semester of 2025, I will teach a Masters’ level seminar at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Business at the Université libre de Bruxelles. The seminar will be based on our recent book “Th...

24th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff 90 views

# Teaching

Bachelor course: Topics in economics

This course will be taught in the new Bachelor of economics at Solvay Brussels School of Université libre de Bruxelles, course-link. What Is the Most Pressing Problem Economists Should be Addressing? This will be the sta...

24th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff 89 views

# Blog, Interviews

Fit for war in decades: sluggish German rearmament versus surging Russian defence production

This article was first published for German newspaper FAZ (pdf). The English version was put out by Bruegel. Russia’s war against Ukraine is one of attrition (Vershinin, 2024), notwithstanding the daring Ukrainian operat...

16th September 2024 by Guntram B. Wolff, Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell, Ivan Kharitonov 117 views

# Publications

Fit for war in decades: Europe’s and Germany’s slow rearmament vis-a-vis Russia

War is back in Europe and as it becomes long-lasting, the question of armament gains central im-portance. This report finds that Russian military industrial capacities have been rising strongly in the last two years, wel...

11th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff, Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell, Ivan Kharitonov 116 views

# Publications

Memo to the commissioner responsible for defence

You face the major challenges of Russian imperialism in the context of a potential United States retreat from Europe and a complex EU defence situation in which defence governance is spread across EU countries and variou...

5th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff 78 views

# Interviews, podcast

Gemeinsame Schulden als Ausweg?

Mein Interview im Deutschlandfunk zur Frage, wie Verteidigungsausgaben in Europa finanziert werden können und warum die französische politische Lage ein Problem für Europa ist – und warum die Probleme in der deutsc...

17th July 2024 by Guntram Wolff 78 views

# Blog, Publications

What role do imports play in European defence?

The European Union wants to reduce reliance on imported defence equipment, but the reliance seems to be overstated. Our analysis for Bruegel The European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), published in March 2024, propo...

4th July 2024 by Juan Mejino Lopez, Guntram B. Wolff 86 views