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Interviewing Magrethe Vestager on how competition policy helps “small” people, AI and the role of data and how industrial policy should evolve

Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff went to the Berlaymont to interview Mar...

19th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1121 views

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Capture the nodes

How do states exercise power through global economic networks? The multilateral world order is supposed to be harmonious, but by seizing the nodes of production, powerful forces can control access to the global economic ...

16th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1058 views

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Appellate body politics

This week, the WTO’s Appellate Body, the dispute settlement body, became inoperational: it no longer has the necessary number of judges to render verdicts. What does this mean for international trade and multilater...

12th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1472 views

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The Belt and Road anxiety

Is the Belt and Road initiative a global development plan or is it just a trade project? How concerned should the international community be with what is called the “project of the century”? This week, Guntra...

6th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1066 views

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Ethics and Algorithms

Will EU tech regulations undermine its ability to innovate? From facial recognition to the production of “deep fakes”, artificial intelligence poses many ethical questions. In a world where China and the US are investing...

20th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1233 views

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Cars, steel and national security – the EU-US trade spat

I am joined by Alan Beattie, the author of the FT’s new Trade Secrets newsletter, and by Andre Sapir, Bruegel’s very own trade expert to discuss President Trump’s tariffs and whether or not they’r...

14th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1184 views

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How to make the European Green Deal work (part 2)

Don’t worry if you missed part one because all of Bruegel’s pillars for a European Green Deal are created equal. This time, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss industrial policy and the social conseque...

13th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1249 views

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How to make the European Green Deal work (Part One)

The European Green Deal will be a defining feature of Ursula Von der Leyen’s incoming Commission. But will carbon border taxes and single carbon prices be enough to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050? This week, N...

7th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1576 views

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The art of the Brexit deal

An emergency Brexit podcast to dissect today’s tentative deal between the EU27 and the British Government, featuring Maria Demertzis, Guntram Wolff and Nicholas Barrett The British government has reached a deal wit...

17th October 2019 by Guntram Wolff 2593 views

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Brexit: a European Odysee

A discussion with Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Nicholas Barret....

10th October 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1323 views