# Blog, Publications

The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe

Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere. Our piece for Bruegel....

18th December 2024 by Alexander Burilkov, Juan Mejino López, Guntram Wolff 2 views

# Blog, Interviews

Deutschland braucht mehr finanzielle Ressourcen für die Verteidigung – noch vor der Wahl

Artikel in der FAZ, in dem wir argumentieren, dass eine Reform der Schuldenbremse für die Verteidigung sinnvoll und richtig ist....

29th November 2024 by Clemens Fuest, Moritz Schularick, Armin Steinbach, Guntram Wolff 7 views

# Publications

A European defence industrial strategy in a hostile world

Bruegel Policy Brief (here) Executive summary Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has brought war back to Europe. Failing to stop Russia’s aggression would leave Europe at a critical disadvantage for decades, with a lon...

26th November 2024 by Juan Mejino-Lopez, Guntram Wolff 8 views

# Blog, Interviews

Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act

Oped published on Bruegel, Welt, Le Monde, Rzeczpospolita and others. Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election Europeans migh...

4th November 2024 by Alexandr Burilkov, Guntram Wolff 18 views

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Less complacency, more investment: a European defence procurement strategy would be cheaper

Oped published in Handelsblatt, Corriere della Serra, Helsingin, Bruegel and others. Two and a half years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the question of armaments and the speed of military procurement a...

11th October 2024 by Guntram Wolff 87 views

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Fit for war in decades: sluggish German rearmament versus surging Russian defence production

This article was first published for German newspaper FAZ (pdf). The English version was put out by Bruegel. Russia’s war against Ukraine is one of attrition (Vershinin, 2024), notwithstanding the daring Ukrainian operat...

16th September 2024 by Guntram B. Wolff, Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell, Ivan Kharitonov 131 views

# Publications

Fit for war in decades: Europe’s and Germany’s slow rearmament vis-a-vis Russia

War is back in Europe and as it becomes long-lasting, the question of armament gains central im-portance. This report finds that Russian military industrial capacities have been rising strongly in the last two years, wel...

11th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff, Alexandr Burilkov, Katelyn Bushnell, Ivan Kharitonov 128 views

# Publications

Memo to the commissioner responsible for defence

You face the major challenges of Russian imperialism in the context of a potential United States retreat from Europe and a complex EU defence situation in which defence governance is spread across EU countries and variou...

5th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff 90 views

# Blog, Publications

What role do imports play in European defence?

The European Union wants to reduce reliance on imported defence equipment, but the reliance seems to be overstated. Our analysis for Bruegel The European Defence Industrial Strategy (EDIS), published in March 2024, propo...

4th July 2024 by Juan Mejino Lopez, Guntram B. Wolff 99 views

# Blog, Publications

Debt financing European air defence

A case can be made for financing European air defence through issuance of EU debt. Our analysis on Bruegel. Introduction Ukraine is not the only part of Europe vulnerable to missiles and air attacks[1]. Cu...

28th June 2024 by Armin Steinbach, Guntram Wolff 113 views