# Blog

Regarding your new responsibilities, Mr Centeno…

Versions of this opinion piece were published in Negocios, Politico, Kathimerini and La Repubblica. Dear Mr Eurogroup president! Congratulations, you are taking on a challenging task. Not only will you have to look after...

29th January 2018 by Guntram Wolff 560 views

# Blog

Does the European Parliament miss an opportunity to reform after Brexit?

On January 18th 2018, the European Parliament will vote on its new distribution of MEPs per Member State after Brexit. 73 MEPs are elected in the UK. These 73 seats can either be dropped or reallocated across countries o...

11th January 2018 by Robert Kalcik, Nicolas Moës, Guntram B. Wolff 2730 views

# Interviews

2018: Top Risks

What are the biggest risks to the global economy in 2018? Ed Butler of BBC hears from Ian Bremmer, Megan Greene, and myself. Comedian Colm O’Regan chips in from Dublin with his take on how the world is changing as ...

6th January 2018 by BBC World service 632 views

# Blog

Opportunities and risks in Europe in 2018

This opinion piece was published by Nikkei Asia Review and Nikkei Veritas as well as Kathimerni. As 2017 draws to a close, it is a good moment to review the main risks for the upcoming year and explore some of the...

30th December 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1962 views

# Blog

The European Commission should drop its ill-designed idea of a finance minister

This opinion piece was published on Politico, La Republicca, Die Zeit, Kathimerini, and others. As always, the respective titles in the newspapers were NOT drafted by me. European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker...

4th December 2017 by Guntram Wolff 5781 views

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# Publications

Beyond the Juncker and Schäuble visions of euro-area governance

This policy brief was first published on Bruegel.org. It is widely covered in the press. The issue Two diametrically opposed visions of the euro-area architecture have been put forward. European Commission president Jean...

1st December 2017 by Guntram Wolff 879 views

# Blog

German wages, the Phillips curve and migration in the euro area

This post studies why wages in Germany have not borne strong increases despite a relatively strong labour market. I list four reasons why announcing the death of the Phillips curve – the negative relationship between une...

29th November 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1585 views

# Blog

What has driven the votes for Germany’s right-wing Alternative für Deutschland?

The AfD vote in East Germany was consistently stronger than in the West, even after controlling for income, age, education, religion and the overall rural nature of the new Bundesländer. This was first published on Brueg...

6th October 2017 by Alexander Roth, Guntram B. Wolff 2545 views

# Blog

A Jamaican Germany could be good for Europe

A shortened version of this opinion piece has been published by the Financial Times. Germany has voted – and the result has been a shock to Germans and to Europe. The AfD – an extremely right wing, and in part neo-nazi, ...

29th September 2017 by Guntram Wolff 704 views

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# Publications

Capital Markets Union and the fintech opportunity

The paper was prepared for and presented at the informal ECOFIN in Tallinn, Estonia, on 15 September 2017. The paper is available here. Complementing Europe’s bank-based system with deeper capital markets and more...

14th September 2017 by Maria Demertzis, Silvia Merler, Guntram B. Wolff 965 views