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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 17 views

# podcast

Podcast on the strategic agenda

In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis outline the specific measures that the new presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament should take in orde...

14th June 2019 by Guntram Wolff 19 views

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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 97 views

# Interviews

EU election increases legitimacy of European parliament

My take on the EP election in CNBC...

27th May 2019 by Guntram Wolff 171 views

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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 194 views

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Evolution of US-China relations amid trade-tariff conflict

Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and Bruegel fellow Uri Dadush welcome William Alan Reinsch, senior adviser and Scholl chair in international business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, for a discussion...

16th May 2019 by Guntram Wolff 216 views

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# Blog

Germany’s even larger than expected fiscal surpluses: Is there a link with the constitutional debt brake?

Germany is having a political debate on the adjustment of its budgetary plans due to revised forecasts, and an academic debate on the debt brake. Yet, since 2011, general government revenues and surpluses have been syste...

13th May 2019 by Catarina Midoes, Guntram Wolff 757 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 Uri Dadush, Guntram Wolff 443 views

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# Publications

What drives national implementation of EU policy recommendations?

We use a newly-compiled dataset to investigate whether and why European Union countries implement the economic policy recommendations they receive from the EU. We find that implementation rates are modest and have worsen...

25th April 2019 by KONSTANTINOS EFSTATHIOU AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 213 views

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Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and convergence in the European Union

This Policy Contribution was written for the Informal ECOFIN Meeting, Bucharest, 5 April 2019. The authors look at the EU’s economic agenda, discussing the priorities for the next five years. It can be downloaded HERE. M...

5th April 2019 by Maria Demertzis, André Sapir, Guntram Wolff 683 views