# Publications

Hybrid and cybersecurity threats and the European Union’s financial system

This policy contribution (pdf) was written for and presented at the informal meeting of EU finance ministers and central bank governors (Informal ECOFIN) in Helsinki, 13 September 2019. Increasing cyber and hybrid risks...

15th September 2019 by Maria Demertzis, Guntram Wolff 18 views

# Publications

Braver, greener, fairer: Memos to the EU leadership 2019-2024

This collected volume, edited by Maria Demertzis and myself, focuses on the most important economic questions at EU level. The memos covering 16 different files and written by 21 Bruegel scholars, are intended to present...

10th September 2019 by Maria Demertzis, Guntram Wolff (editors) 17 views

# Blog, Interviews

Why Europe needs a change of mind-set to fend off the risks of recession

Versions of this opinion piece are appearing in Handelsblatt, Le Monde, El Pais, Kathimerini, Rzeczpospolita, Helsinki Sanomat, Caixin, Nikkei Veritas and others. Recession! This is the new worry in Europe and the...

2nd September 2019 by Guntram Wolff 135 views

# 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 598 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 402 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 355 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 368 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 316 views

# Interviews

ECB can go further

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

21st June 2019 by Bloomberg 622 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 331 views