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Central banking and the problem of unelected power

Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, joins me to discuss the thesis of his new book, as well as the current tensions within current models of central banking governance. We discuss whether the ECB ...

5th June 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1324 views

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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 1378 views

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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 6909 views

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EU risks US tariff pain in standing by the WTO

As global trade war continues to unfold, I discuss in this podcast with Bernd Lange MEP and chair of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) of the European Parliament. Bernd Lange expresses his optimism that the EU ...

17th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 6883 views

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Developing deposit insurance in Europe

In this week’s Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ podcast, Bruegel director Guntram Wolff talks with Nicolas Véron, senior fellow at Bruegel, about the implementation of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS)...

5th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 6580 views

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A global trade triumvirate?

I host a discussion with Bruegel fellows Alicia García-Herrero and André Sapir on where Europe will position itself between the two major trading powers of China and the United States if relations continue to cool....

27th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 7601 views

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EU budget: Scope to reform Common Agricultural Policy

In this episode of ‘The Sound of Economics’, I talk with Lars Hoelgaard, former deputy director general at DG AGRI, regarding the possibilities for reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the consequences for t...

20th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 5279 views

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Euro area governance: where next

Manfred Weber, Gideon Rachmann, Maria Demertzis and myseld in a free-flowing conversation on euro area governance....

1st March 2018 by Bruegel - Sound of Economics 4881 views

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The new EU budget and the future of the Spitzenkandidaten process

Here, I frame the two debates that will dominate the upcoming meeting of the European Council – the shape of the next EU budget, and the method by which a new European Commission president will be appointed....

21st February 2018 by Bruegel sound of economics 4382 views

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What the German coalition agreement means for Europe

The final document on the German coalition agreement will have significant consequences for the European Union and the Eurozone. Bruegel director Guntram Wolff gives his assessment of the agreement’s key features i...

7th February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 4349 views