# podcast

EU policy priorities towards Capital Markets Union

The deepening and enlargement of Europe’s capital markets has long been a policy target for the EU – indeed, it is a flagship priority of the current Commission. Many legislative proposals have been forwarded, and there ...

8th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 7602 views

# Blog

Europe needs a broader discussion of its future

The important Franco-German paper leaves aside some of the most crucial issues for the future of Europe’s monetary union: European public goods, a proper fiscal stance and major national reforms. Its compromise on sovere...

6th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2009 views

# Interviews

recent interviews

a few recent interviews. ARD Morgenmagazin heute.de on EU budget discussion Deutschlandfunk on Greece capital.bg...

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1436 views

# Interviews

EU in Global Trade System: Balancing the US and China

My interview in The Diplomat....

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 3124 views

# Blog

Germany’s export-oriented economic model is caught in a US-Chinese squeeze

The new Merkel government has to reduce the dependencies on exports by stimulating domestic growth forces in Germany and Europe. At the same time, Berlin should push for a more ambitious national and European innovation ...

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1730 views

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# Publications

Making a reality of Europe’s capital markets union

This Policy Contribution is an edited version of a paper prepared for and presented at the informal meeting of European Union economic and financial affairs ministers (Informal ECOFIN), Sofia, Bulgaria, 27-28 April 2018....

27th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1965 views

# podcast

EU risks US tariff pain in standing by the WTO

As global trade war continues to unfold, I discuss in this podcast with Bernd Lange MEP and chair of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) of the European Parliament. Bernd Lange expresses his optimism that the EU ...

17th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 7773 views

# 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 2567 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 7299 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 8368 views