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Appellate body politics

This week, the WTO’s Appellate Body, the dispute settlement body, became inoperational: it no longer has the necessary number of judges to render verdicts. What does this mean for international trade and multilater...

12th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 471 views

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The Belt and Road anxiety

Is the Belt and Road initiative a global development plan or is it just a trade project? How concerned should the international community be with what is called the “project of the century”? This week, Guntra...

6th December 2019 by Guntram Wolff 348 views

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Ethics and Algorithms

Will EU tech regulations undermine its ability to innovate? From facial recognition to the production of “deep fakes”, artificial intelligence poses many ethical questions. In a world where China and the US are investing...

20th November 2019 by Nicholas Barret, Guntram Wolff 445 views

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Cars, steel and national security – the EU-US trade spat

I am joined by Alan Beattie, the author of the FT’s new Trade Secrets newsletter, and by Andre Sapir, Bruegel’s very own trade expert to discuss President Trump’s tariffs and whether or not they’r...

14th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 394 views

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How to make the European Green Deal work (part 2)

Don’t worry if you missed part one because all of Bruegel’s pillars for a European Green Deal are created equal. This time, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss industrial policy and the social conseque...

13th November 2019 by Nicholas Barret, Guntram Wolff 348 views

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How to make the European Green Deal work (Part One)

The European Green Deal will be a defining feature of Ursula Von der Leyen’s incoming Commission. But will carbon border taxes and single carbon prices be enough to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050? This week, N...

7th November 2019 by Nicholas Barrett, Guntram Wolff 617 views

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The art of the Brexit deal

An emergency Brexit podcast to dissect today’s tentative deal between the EU27 and the British Government, featuring Maria Demertzis, Guntram Wolff and Nicholas Barrett The British government has reached a deal wit...

17th October 2019 by Bruegel 748 views

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Brexit: a European Odysee

A discussion with Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Nicholas Barret....

10th October 2019 by Bruegel 498 views

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Priorities for the new ECB president

In this director’s cut, I host Maria Demertzis and Gregory Claeys to discuss priorities for the new ECB president....

5th July 2019 by Guntram Wolff 679 views

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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 446 views