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How to reform and fortify the global financial system

In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ Guntram Wolff is joined by Bruegel’s mercator senior fellow Jean Pisani-Ferry, and by Tharman Shanmugaratnam, chair of the G20 Eminent Persons Group. A report from the E...

23rd October 2018 by Guntram Wolff 6 views

# Blog

How could Europe benefit from the US-China trade war?

Versions of this article were published in Politico, Nikkei Veritas, Caixin and Die Zeit. Global trade tensions have steadily increased since President Donald Trump took office at the beginning of 2017. Initially, the US...

18th October 2018 by Guntram Wolff 123 views

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How does Italy’s budget fit with EU fiscal rules?

In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff welcomes Bruegel research fellow Grégory Claeys to assess how the new Italian budget proposals measure up against the existing EU fiscal rules. Italy’s ne...

9th October 2018 by Guntram Wolff 81 views

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The Italian government budget proposal for 2019

Guntram Wolff welcomes Bruegel affiliate fellow Silvia Merler to evaluate the Italian government’s planned budget for 2019, in this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ Six months after its election, Italy’s coalit...

28th September 2018 by Guntram Wolff 128 views

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# Publications

One size does not fit all: European integration by differentiation

THE ISSUE Reforming the governance of the European Union has become urgent for three reasons: to better deal with politically-sensitive topics, to manage greater external challenges and because future EU enlargement will...

19th September 2018 by MARIA DEMERTZIS, JEAN PISANI-FERRY, ANDRÉ SAPIR, THOMAS WIESER AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 145 views

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The economic potential and risks of crypto assets: is a regulatory framework needed?

This paper was paper written at the request of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the informal ECOFIN meeting of EU finance ministers and central bank governors (September 2018) and was pres...

6th September 2018 by Maria Demertzis, Guntram B. Wolff 213 views

# Blog

Overcoming the hurdles to Italian growth

This opinion piece was published in La Republicca. As the Italian government is contemplating its budgetary policy, it is useful to look at other countries’ experiences in how to deal with high debt levels. A salient exa...

4th September 2018 by Guntram Wolff 413 views

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Turkey’s crisis and what should be Europe’s response

I welcome Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Jean Pisani-Ferry, mercator senior fellow at Bruegel, to discuss the deterioration of Turkey’s economy. Although a recent souring of rel...

27th August 2018 by Guntram Wolff 243 views

# Blog

What should the EU do about the Turkish currency crisis?

The Turkish lira has been under significant pressure in recent weeks; in this blog post, the authors discuss the EU’s exposure to possible crisis in Turkey and how the EU should react. This was first published with Brueg...

14th August 2018 by GRÉGORY CLAEYS, GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 373 views

# Blog

Europe should avoid a no-deal Brexit

This opinion piece was published in various newspapers across Europe (FAZ, Le Figaro, Le Soir, Corriere dela Serra, the Times, NRC, Il Mundo). The authors are not responsible for the titles chosen by those newspapers. Al...

24th July 2018 by Jean Pisani-Ferry, Norbert Röttgen, André Sapir, Paul Tucker, Guntram Wolff 2313 views