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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Balancing free trade with national security interests
In this episode of Director’s Cut, Stephanie Segal of CSIS joins Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis for a conversation about the tension between free trade and national security issues, and the emerg...
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Reflections on five years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Bruegel fellows Alicia García-Herrero and Uri Dadush join me for this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, focusing on the progress made by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, how it will con...
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Shared prosperity for the EU and north Africa
Bruegel’s director Guntram Wolff looks at north Africa’s economic growth in the light of the region’s trade agreements with the EU, welcoming Karim El Aynaoui and Uri Dadush to the Backstage series on &...
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Germany’s export-oriented economic model is caught in a US-Chinese squeeze
The new Merkel government has to reduce the dependencies on exports by stimulating domestic growth forces in Germany and Europe. At the same time, Berlin should push for a more ambitious national and European innovation ...
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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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How Should the EU Position Itself in a Global Trade War?
This opinion was published in Intereconomics, Volume 53, March/April 2018, Number 2 · pp. 50-51, here is the link. It was also published in Caixin-Chinese and Caixin-English and a shorter version in Nikkei Veritas. Steve...
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