# Blog

Demystifying carbon border adjustment for Europe’s green deal

European Commission President-Elect Ursula von der Leyen has made a strong plea to accelerate Europe’s transition to a “green” economy with the goal of achieving ambitious targets of reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emi...

4th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 2359 views

# Blog, Interviews

Life after the multilateral trading system

This article was published by Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, LeMonde, Handelsblatt and Corriere. The China-US trade talks, crucial as they are, divert attention from the main event: the World Trade Organization, the essential i...

25th April 2019 by Guntram Wolff 7850 views

# podcast

EU-China partnership after the 21st EU-China summit

I discuss with Alicia Garcia Herrero the results of the 21st EU-China Summit...

13th April 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1416 views

# podcast

China’s place in the global trading system

Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and senior fellow André Sapir discuss how potential WTO reform could better accommodate China. In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff talks to B...

29th March 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1415 views

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# Publications

The European Union’s response to the trade crisis

The global trading system, a source of prosperity, is under attack on various fronts. The causes run deep and require a strategic response from the European Union and from the main trading nations. The future of the syst...

15th March 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1880 views

# podcast

Balancing free trade with national security interests

In this episode of Director’s Cut, Stephanie Segal of CSIS joins Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis for a conversation about the tension between free trade and national security issues, and the emerg...

20th February 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1310 views

# podcast

Reflections on five years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Bruegel fellows Alicia García-Herrero and Uri Dadush join me for this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, focusing on the progress made by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, how it will con...

11th February 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1473 views

# podcast

Shared prosperity for the EU and north Africa

Bruegel’s director Guntram Wolff looks at north Africa’s economic growth in the light of the region’s trade agreements with the EU, welcoming Karim El Aynaoui and Uri Dadush to the Backstage series on &...

2nd December 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1669 views

# Interviews

EU in Global Trade System: Balancing the US and China

My interview in The Diplomat....

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 3113 views

# Blog

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 ...

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1719 views