# Blog

Brazil can learn from Spain: don’t delay adjustment

This post first appeared in the FT’s beyond brics blog. Brazil’s economy and politics have long been playing with fire. Now the rest of the world risks getting burnt by waiting for the crisis to be addressed domest...

10th May 2016 by Alicia Garcia-Herrero, Guntram B. Wolff 1773 views

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Youth unemployment in the Mediterranean region and its long-term implications

Youth unemployment in the Mediterranean region has consequences for the whole of Europe. Tackling youth unemployment in the region must continue to be a high policy priority. This piece was first published on Bruegel and...

14th April 2016 by Nuria Boot, Karen Wilson, Guntram B. Wolff 1709 views

# Blog

How to make the EU-Turkey deal work

A version of this op-ed was originally published in Politico Europe. It also appeared in Hurriyet, Capital, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, and Kathimerini, and will be in Vasarnapi Hirek Critics have calle...

11th April 2016 by Guntram Wolff 1583 views

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Mere criticism of the ECB is no solution

This piece was first published by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung in a shortened version. It is also published in various national newspapers, including Le Monde. The eurozone remains in a deep, largely...

10th April 2016 by Marcel Fratzscher, Reint Gropp, Hans-Helmut Kotz, Jan Krahnen, Christian Odendahl, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Guntram Wolff 2028 views

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ECB decisions put lack of fiscal union in the spotlight

Fiscal policy in the euro area is hardly supporting the recovery and the ECB. The EU needs a a proper fiscal union in order to stabilise the economy and inflation. We see four main avenues for achieving a viable fiscal f...

1st April 2016 by AGNÈS BÉNASSY-QUÉRÉ, GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 1548 views

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The UK’s sovereignty myth

Those who argue that Brexit would let the UK “take back sovereignty” overlook the impact of trade on domestic law-making. This op-ed has also been published on Bruegel, in Kathimerini, Público, Die Zeit, Finans, Nikkei V...

17th March 2016 by André Sapir, Guntram B. Wolff 1907 views

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The G20’s structural reform agenda should address income gap and financial system fragility

G20 leaders must address major issues like the distribution of income and the structure of our financial systems in order to combat the deeper underlying causes of weak global demand. A version of this op-ed was also pub...

15th March 2016 by Guntram Wolff 1831 views

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Central banks: from omnipotence to impotence?

Like the price of financial assets, the market assessment of the capacity of central banks to achieve their price stability objective fluctuates between omnipotence and impotence. We do not agree with this binary view of...

2nd March 2016 by Francesco Papadia, Guntram B. Wolff 2511 views

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The fallout from the European refugee crisis

This opinion piece is published on Nikkei Veritas, Nikkei Asian Review, Manager Magazin, People’s daily and elsewhere. Of the 1.5 million refugees that reached the EU last year, more than 1 million ended up in Germ...

26th January 2016 by Guntram Wolff 1652 views

# Blog

Schengen und die Kosten

This op-ed was published in Wirtschaftswoche. It will be published on this blog in English and in other newspapers. Der Präsident der Europäischen Kommission, Jean-Claude Juncker, warnte kürzlich mit starken Worten: „Ohn...

23rd January 2016 by Guntram Wolff 1809 views