# Blog

Demystifying carbon border adjustment for Europe’s green deal

European Commission President-Elect Ursula von der Leyen has made a strong plea to accelerate Europe’s transition to a “green” economy with the goal of achieving ambitious targets of reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emi...

4th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1610 views

# Blog, Interviews

Politics, not policy will help Lagarde save the eurozone

This opinion piece was originally published by Politico When Christine Lagarde was tapped to become the next chief of the European Central Bank, her detractors were quick to argue her appointment was a mistake. Though sh...

4th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff, Rebecca Christie 795 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 4469 views

# Blog

How Digitalization of the Workforce Will Impact Europe’s Social Protection Systems

I wrote a post summarizing a recent report of Bruegel for the Mastercard Centre for inclusive growth....

12th August 2019 by Guntram Wolff, Enrico Bergaminu 849 views

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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 3689 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 1386 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 1228 views

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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 5384 views

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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 4857 views

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What can the EU do to keep its firms globally relevant?

This opinion piece was published on Berlin Policy Journal and versions of it are published in Le Monde, La Repubblica, Handelsblatt (pdf), El Pais, Hospodarske Noviny and Capital.bg. Big is beautiful – so the claim of ma...

8th February 2019 by Georgios Petropoulos, Guntram Wolff 2189 views