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# Publications

The implications of no-deal Brexit: is the European Union prepared?

This Policy Contribution, based on a note written for the Bundestag EU Committee, explores the possible consequences of a no-deal Brexit for the European Union and assesses preparations on the EU side. It also provides g...

15th January 2019 by Guntram Wolff 2316 views

# Publications

The EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework and some implications for CESEE countries

The European Union’s budget – which is fundamentally different from the budgets of federal countries and amounts to only about 1% of the EU’s gross national income – continues to be heavy on agricultural and cohesion spe...

17th September 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1464 views

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# Publications

EU funds for migration, asylum and integration policies

The European Union significantly increased its funding for migration, asylum and integration policies in the wake of the increased inflow of asylum seekers in 2015. This study provides an overview, an analysis and an eva...

23rd May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2043 views

# podcast

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...

20th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 6022 views

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Rethinking the European Union’s post-Brexit budget priorities

There will be a €94 billion Brexit-related hole in the EU budget for 2021-27 if business continues as before and the United Kingdom does not contribute. The authors show that freezing agriculture and cohesion spending in...

19th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1759 views

# Interviews, Uncategorised

What budget for the EU? Principles, spending priorities and the impact of Brexit

Zsolt Darvas and I were asked by the Bulgarian Presidency to write a paper on the future of the EU budget, the MFF. The paper will be published soon but here is our presentation that I presented on 9 March in Sofia at th...

9th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1801 views

# podcast

The new EU budget and the future of the Spitzenkandidaten process

Here, I frame the two debates that will dominate the upcoming meeting of the European Council – the shape of the next EU budget, and the method by which a new European Commission president will be appointed....

21st February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 5054 views

# Blog

Eurozone or EU budget? Confronting a complex political question

This week’s European Commission reflection paper is the latest document to ponder a distinction between EU and euro-area budgets. But do we need to split the two, and what would each budget be used for? In this post, I p...

29th June 2017 by Guntram Wolff 3213 views