# Blog

The EU’s fiscal stance, its recovery fund, and how they relate to the fiscal rules

Joint EU borrowing to boost the recovery, if not treated as national deficit and debt, will substantially ease rules-based fiscal adjustment needs in southern and eastern Europe, but not in western and northern Europe. B...

5th March 2021 by Guntram Wolff 2977 views

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# Publications

Foreign Affairs: EU Can’t Separate Climate Policy From Foreign Policy

Published in Foreign Affairs,...

5th March 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1194 views

# Blog, Interviews

The EU can’t separate climate policy from foreign policy

This opinion piece was originally published in Rzeczpospolita, Domani, Le Monde and La Vanguardia. The European Union’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050 is not only a revolutionary exercise in shifting the continent’s ...

5th March 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1336 views

# Interviews

The impact of the digital euro on the financial system

My conversation with Fabio Panetta...

18th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 713 views

# podcast

How effective have COVID-19 credit support programmes been?

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to business. Since the first lockdowns, governments have used credit support programmes as the main instrument to mitigate the liquidity shock businesses have been facing. Hav...

17th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 776 views

# Blog, Interviews

Aiming for zero Covid-19: Europe needs to take action

This opinion piece with nearly 30 signatories was originally published in de Volkskrant, Le Monde, Süddeutsche, La Repubblica, El Pais and Rzeczpospolita on the initiative of Miquel Oliu Barton and Bary Pradelski. by Yan...

16th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1299 views

# Interviews

selected interviews on vaccination delays

In national public radio: (link) BBC (The inquiry): (link) Le temps Switzerland: (link) New York Times: (link and link) ...

13th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 748 views

# podcast

The geopolitics of the Green Deal podcast

The European Green Deal is a plan to decarbonise the EU economy by 2050, revolutionise the EU’s energy system, profoundly transform the economy and inspire efforts to combat climate change. But the plan will also have pr...

6th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 752 views

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# Publications

The geopolitics of the European Green Deal

The Green Deal will redefine Europe’s global policy priorities; as such, it is a foreign policy development with profound geopolitical consequences. The pdf is here. A short version has been published in Foreign Affairs....

6th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1042 views

# Blog, Interviews

Why has the EU been so slow to roll out a Covid vaccination programme?

This opinion piece was originally published on El País and the Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung Europe was not prepared for the pandemic, but it must now learn lessons and use all its financial and political resources. F...

29th January 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1551 views