# podcast

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...

11th February 2019 by Guntram Wolff 44 views

# podcast

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 &...

2nd December 2018 by Guntram Wolff 186 views

# Interviews

EU in Global Trade System: Balancing the US and China

My interview in The Diplomat....

30th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1889 views

# Blog

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 ...

30th April 2018 by Sebastian Heilmann, Guntram B. Wolff 466 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 6206 views

# Blog

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...

5th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1008 views

# podcast

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 7140 views

# Interviews

my presentation at ASEM meeting: towards a Eurasian century?

warning: low quality recording I gave a presentation to the ASEM trade and economy ministers meeting on 22/09/2017 in Seoul....

24th September 2017 by Karsten Warnecke 487 views

# Interviews

Think tanks should look beyond economics to cultural and societal values

28th August 2017 by ADBI 1258 views

# Blog

Europe must seize this moment of opportunity

This opinion piece was published on Spiegel Online, Le Monde, El Economista and Bruegel. After years of despondency, there is new and positive momentum in Europe. With the French electing Emmanuel Macron and a broad reco...

14th August 2017 by AGNÈS BÉNASSY-QUÉRÉ, MICHAEL HÜTHER, PHILIPPE MARTIN AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 718 views