# Blog, Interviews

From Derrida to Trump – a book review

My book review for El Pais. The death of truth – notes on falsehood in the age of Trump” by Michiko Kakutani is a lucid account of how Western societies are losing their consensus on what is true and what is false – with...

29th July 2019 by Guntram Wolff 166 views

# Blog, Interviews

The EU needs a bold climate strategy

This article was originally published in The Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, Rzeczpospolita and Ta Nea In order to avert catastrophic climate change for the entire human population, global temperature increases must be limited t...

19th July 2019 by Guntram Wolff 209 views

# Blog

A stronger EU legal framework is not enough to foster national compliance

In 2011, the EU introduced stricter rules to monitor the implementation of country-specific policy recommendations. Using a new dataset, this column investigates whether these new laws have increased national compliance....

17th July 2019 by Konstantinos Efstathiou, Guntram Wolff 168 views

# podcast

Priorities for the new ECB president

In this director’s cut, I host Maria Demertzis and Gregory Claeys to discuss priorities for the new ECB president....

5th July 2019 by Guntram Wolff 242 views

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# Publications

Redefining Europe’s economic sovereignty

Our latest policy contribution co-authored by a team of ECFR and Bruegel scholars is here. Executive summary: Europeans like to believe the European Union has the collective economic size and capacity to determine its ow...

25th June 2019 by Mark Leonard, Jean Pisani-Ferry, Elina Ribakova, Jeremy Shapiro, Guntram Wolff 225 views

# Interviews

ECB can go further

Bloomberg interviewed me in Sintra after the Draghi speech on June 19...

21st June 2019 by Bloomberg 507 views

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# Publications

A strategic agenda for the new EU leadership

Memo to the presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament. The next presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament will inherit a relatively healthy European economy, but will face three fo...

14th June 2019 by Maria Demertzis, André Sapir, Guntram Wolff 254 views

# podcast

Reflections on the European elections

I host Ferdinando Giugliano, columnist for Bloomberg and La Repubblica, and Krzysztof Blusz, political analyst and senior fellow at WiseEuropa – Centre for European Strategy, for a discussion about the results of the Eur...

29th May 2019 by Guntram Wolff 294 views

# Interviews

EU election increases legitimacy of European parliament

My take on the EP election in CNBC...

27th May 2019 by Guntram Wolff 363 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 Giuseppe Porcaro 378 views