# Blog

German elections: seizing the moral and economic opportunity of global health security

This blog is part of a series by CGD and partnering institutions from Germany focused on presenting specific policy proposals for the next German government’s leadership on global development issues. The COVID-19 pandemi...

25th September 2021 by Guntram Wolff 935 views

# podcast

Backstage: Key policy positions of the Spitzenkandidaten

Giuseppe Porcaro hosts Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and visiting fellow Rebecca Christie to reflect on the key policy positions taken by the candidates for the European Commission presidency, ahead of May’s elect...

22nd May 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1551 views

# podcast

Central banking and the problem of unelected power

Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, joins me to discuss the thesis of his new book, as well as the current tensions within current models of central banking governance. We discuss whether the ECB ...

5th June 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2147 views

# Blog

What has driven the votes for Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland?

The AfD vote in East Germany was consistently stronger than in the West, even after controlling for income, age, education, religion and the overall rural nature of the new Bundesländer. This was first published on Brueg...

6th October 2017 by Guntram Wolff 4013 views

# Blog

What will drive political uncertainty in 2017?

My end-of-year opinion piece, published in numerous international and national outlets. (Nikkei Asian Review, Nikkei Veritas, El Pais, DB.lv, capital.bg, Managermagazin … ) As 2016 draws to a close, a sense...

3rd January 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2358 views

# Blog

Markets and broken promises in the UK referendum

After four days of violent market reactions to the prospects of Brexit, markets have paused and gained in strength slightly. Why has that happened? In the wake of the referendum result of June 23, financial market...

29th June 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2361 views