# Blog

Reforming Europe’s Fiscal Architecture

Piece was first published on Internationale Politik Quarterly. The drive to change the EU’s fiscal rules has fizzled out, an agreement before the June 2024 European elections is unlikely. However, Europe cannot ignore it...

9th November 2023 by Shahin Vallée, Guntram Wolff 96 views

# Interviews

Auf Wiedersehen NGEU?

Interview in Bruegel newsletter Did the German constitutional court prohibit the EU recovery fund? On 26 March, the German constitutional court decided that, until it reaches a decision, the ‘Eigenmittelbeschluss-Ratifiz...

2nd April 2021 by Guntram Wolff 737 views

# Blog

ESM credit lines, ‘corona-bonds’, Euro-area Treasury, One-off joint expenditures: What are the options for the EU Council?

A version of this piece was also published in French. As the Covid-19 pandemic intensifies and now that Europe has become the epicentre of the pandemic, voices are being raised among EU Member States in support of a comm...

26th March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 3132 views

# Blog

Europa sinnvoll gestalten

This opinion piece was published in FAZ on Friday, 28 April, 2017. Weder gute Wachstums- und Beschäftigungszahlen noch das schlechter als erwartete Abschneiden des Populisten Geert Wilders können darüber hinwegtäu...

30th April 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2464 views

# Blog

What future for Europe?

The Commission’s White Paper on the future of the EU sets out five scenarios, but misses some of the fundamental questions facing Europe. How should the EU interact with its neighbourhood? How can we manage the ten...

17th March 2017 by Guntram Wolff 33760 views

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# Publications

What are the prerequisites for a euro-area fiscal capacity?

This paper is a background note for a presentation at the Informal ECOFIN meeting of EU finance ministers and central bank governors in Bratislava on September 9, 2016. policy contribution, summary sent to ministers, spe...

12th September 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2647 views

# Blog

Testimony on European Deposit Insurance System

I gave a presentation to the European Parliament’s ECON committee on European deposit insurance. Below is a summary of the main points I made, also published on Bruegel. It is welcome that the European Union and th...

23rd May 2016 by Guntram Wolff 2475 views

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# Publications

Which fiscal union for the euro area?

The construction of the euro area left aside the question of a fiscal union, but the crisis re-opened the debate. Read the full paper here. The paper was first published for the Conseil d’analyse économique in Fren...

18th February 2016 by Guntram Wolff 3049 views

# Blog

Euro area governance: an assessment of the “five presidents” report

the positive and missing or negative elements: European Commission President Juncker has published the long-awaited report prepared in collaboration with the presidents of the European Council, the Eurogroup, the Europea...

25th June 2015 by Guntram Wolff 2576 views

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# Publications

Euro-area governance: what to reform and how to do it

The Issue: Reform of the governance of the euro area is being held back by disagreement on what is at the root of the euro area’s woes. Pre-crisis, the euro area suffered from the built-up of financial imbalances, price ...

27th February 2015 by Guntram Wolff 3544 views