Brexit – aber wie
Mein Interview für WDR 5 Morgenecho https://wdrmedien-a.akamaihd.net/medp/podcast/weltweit/fsk0/171/1713115/wdr5morgenechointerview_2018-08-09_brexitaberwie_wdr5.mp3...
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Summer series: Economics of European sovereignty
Guest in Mark Leonard’s World in 30 minutes...
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The drama of the EU and the euro area
I discuss with Ashoka Mody, visiting professor in international economic policy at Princeton University his latest book “Euro tragedy: a drama in nine acts”. We talk about the legacy of Helmut Kohl, the role...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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)...
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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....
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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...
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