# podcast

What risk does Italy’s new government pose to the euro area?

I discuss here with Francesco Papadia, Bruegel senior fellow, the situation in Italy. The coalition agreement between Italy’s Five Star Movement and the League puts the country’s new government on a potential collision c...

24th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 109 views

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# Publications

EU funds for migration, asylum and integration policies

The European Union significantly increased its funding for migration, asylum and integration policies in the wake of the increased inflow of asylum seekers in 2015. This study provides an overview, an analysis and an eva...

23rd May 2018 by FRANCESCO CHIACCHIO, ZSOLT DARVAS, KONSTANTINOS EFSTATHIOU, INÊS GONCALVES RAPOSO AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 32 views

# Blog

Germany’s Government Still Has an Allergy to Investing

The new coalition budget looks a lot like the old German coalition budget. My Bloomberg View column is here....

14th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 89 views

# Blog

Germany’s current account surplus and corporate investment

Following the 1990s post-reunification period and since the beginning of monetary union, Germany’s current account has grown substantially. In the crisis years, Germany’s lost about 15 percentage points of GDP in i...

10th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 122 views

# podcast

EU policy priorities towards Capital Markets Union

The deepening and enlargement of Europe’s capital markets has long been a policy target for the EU – indeed, it is a flagship priority of the current Commission. Many legislative proposals have been forwarded, and there ...

8th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 134 views

# Blog

Europe needs a broader discussion of its future

The important Franco-German paper leaves aside some of the most crucial issues for the future of Europe’s monetary union: European public goods, a proper fiscal stance and major national reforms. Its compromise on sovere...

6th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 134 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 Sebastian Heilmann, Guntram B. Wolff 166 views

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# Publications

Making a reality of Europe’s capital markets union

This Policy Contribution is an edited version of a paper prepared for and presented at the informal meeting of European Union economic and financial affairs ministers (Informal ECOFIN), Sofia, Bulgaria, 27-28 April 2018....

27th April 2018 by André Sapir, Nicolas Véron, Guntram B. Wolff 149 views

# Blog

How Should the EU Position Itself in a Global Trade War?

This opinion was published in Intereconomics, Volume 53, March/April 2018, Number 2 · pp. 50-51, here is the link. It was also published in Caixin-Chinese and Caixin-English and a shorter version in Nikkei Veritas. Steve...

5th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 253 views

# Blog

What Does Europe Care About? Watch Where It Spends.

My Bloomberg View Column is here....

23rd March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 307 views