Will COVID-19 boost the euro as a global currency?
The euro is, by definition an international currency. However, since being established in the late 90s the single currency has always been somewhat less than the sum of it’s parts and has yet to challenge the US do...
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EU-China trade and investment relations in challenging times
This report written for the European Parliament can be found here. ...
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Interviewing Magrethe Vestager on how competition policy helps “small” people, AI and the role of data and how industrial policy should evolve
Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff went to the Berlaymont to interview Mar...
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Evolution of US-China relations amid trade-tariff conflict
Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and Bruegel fellow Uri Dadush welcome William Alan Reinsch, senior adviser and Scholl chair in international business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, for a discussion...
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EU-China partnership after the 21st EU-China summit
I discuss with Alicia Garcia Herrero the results of the 21st EU-China Summit...
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China’s place in the global trading system
Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and senior fellow André Sapir discuss how potential WTO reform could better accommodate China. In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff talks to B...
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The European Union’s response to the trade crisis
The global trading system, a source of prosperity, is under attack on various fronts. The causes run deep and require a strategic response from the European Union and from the main trading nations. The future of the syst...
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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...
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How could Europe benefit from the US-China trade war?
Versions of this article were published in Politico, Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, Caixin(English) and Die Zeit. Global trade tensions have steadily increased since President Donald Trump took office at the beginning of 2017. ...
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