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