# Blog

How Should the EU Position Itself in a Global Trade War?

This opinion was published in Intereconomics, Volume 53, March/April 2018, Number 2 · pp. 50-51, here is the link. It was also published in Caixin-Chinese and Caixin-English and a shorter version in Nikkei Veritas. Steve...

5th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2555 views

# podcast

Developing deposit insurance in Europe

In this week’s Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ podcast, Bruegel director Guntram Wolff talks with Nicolas Véron, senior fellow at Bruegel, about the implementation of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS)...

5th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 7289 views

# podcast

A global trade triumvirate?

I host a discussion with Bruegel fellows Alicia García-Herrero and André Sapir on where Europe will position itself between the two major trading powers of China and the United States if relations continue to cool....

27th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 8356 views

# Blog

What Does Europe Care About? Watch Where It Spends.

My Bloomberg View Column is here....

23rd March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1596 views

# podcast

EU budget: Scope to reform Common Agricultural Policy

In this episode of ‘The Sound of Economics’, I talk with Lars Hoelgaard, former deputy director general at DG AGRI, regarding the possibilities for reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the consequences for t...

20th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 6022 views

# Blog

Europe needs a strong Italy

This opinion piece was published in La Republicca. Summary: Europe needs to have its Italian voice. A stable government is not only needed to pursue the domestic policies and remain fiscally prudent but also to negotiate...

20th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1479 views

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# Publications

Rethinking the European Union’s post-Brexit budget priorities

There will be a €94 billion Brexit-related hole in the EU budget for 2021-27 if business continues as before and the United Kingdom does not contribute. The authors show that freezing agriculture and cohesion spending in...

19th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1759 views

# Blog

Future European priorities

This piece was written for Nikkei Veritas “Budgets are not bookkeeping exercises – they are about priorities and ambition. So let’s first discuss about the Europe we want.” – These are the words of the President of the E...

13th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1612 views

# Interviews

Comments on what is and should be next in Italy

My interview in IlSole24 My interview in Avvenire My interview in Swiss radio ...

10th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1248 views

# Interviews

a podcast on steel and what Donald Trump’s tariffs mean for world trade

my radio interview with radio France internationale in English...

10th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1333 views