# Blog

The EU’s fiscal stance, its recovery fund, and how they relate to the fiscal rules

Joint EU borrowing to boost the recovery, if not treated as national deficit and debt, will substantially ease rules-based fiscal adjustment needs in southern and eastern Europe, but not in western and northern Europe. B...

5th March 2021 by Zsolt Darvas, Guntram Wolff 40 views

# Publications

Foreign Affairs: EU Can’t Separate Climate Policy From Foreign Policy

Published in Foreign Affairs,...

5th March 2021 by ARD, JEAN PISANI-FERRY, JEREMY SHAPIRO, SIMONE TAGLIAPIETRA AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 21 views

# Blog, Interviews

The EU can’t separate climate policy from foreign policy

This opinion piece was originally published in Rzeczpospolita, Domani, Le Monde and La Vanguardia. The European Union’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050 is not only a revolutionary exercise in shifting the continent’s ...

5th March 2021 by NARD, JEAN PISANI-FERRY, JEREMY SHAPIRO, SIMONE TAGLIAPIETRA AND GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 28 views

# Blog, Interviews

Aiming for zero Covid-19: Europe needs to take action

This opinion piece with nearly 30 signatories was originally published in de Volkskrant, Le Monde, Süddeutsche, La Repubblica, El Pais and Rzeczpospolita on the initiative of Miquel Oliu Barton and Bary Pradelski. by Yan...

16th February 2021 by group of authors 307 views

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# Publications

The geopolitics of the European Green Deal

The Green Deal will redefine Europe’s global policy priorities; as such, it is a foreign policy development with profound geopolitical consequences. The pdf is here. A short version has been published in Foreign Affairs....

6th February 2021 by MARK LEONARD, JEREMY SHAPIRO, JEAN PISANI-FERRY, SIMONE TAGLIAPIETRA, GUNTRAM B. WOLFF 148 views

# Blog, Interviews

Why has the EU been so slow to roll out a Covid vaccination programme?

This opinion piece was originally published on El País and the Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung Europe was not prepared for the pandemic, but it must now learn lessons and use all its financial and political resources. F...

29th January 2021 by Guntram Wolff 332 views

# Blog

What do vaccination passports mean for Europe?

To the extent that vaccination against COVID-19 stops individuals infecting others, restrictions on vaccinated individuals’ rights should be lifted: fundamental freedoms should not be limited unnecessarily. Nevertheless,...

20th January 2021 by Jeanrenaud, L., M. Mariniello, G. Wolff 365 views

# Blog

Corporate insolvencies during COVID-19: keeping calm before the storm

This piece is also published in German on Makronom. Historically, economic downturns are associated with increases in business insolvencies. Figure 1 shows that during the Great Financial Crisis, insolvencies increased, ...

11th January 2021 by G. Claeys, M. Hoffmann and G. Wolff 294 views

# Publications

The EU’s non-members – Key principles, underlying logics and types of affiliation

A bigger report to which I contributed on differentiated integration can be found here: r-1-20-fossum-et-al....

4th January 2021 by John Erik Fossum Monica Garcia Quesada Tiziano Zgaga with contributions from Guntram B. Wolff 207 views

# podcast

The year that tested us all

An overview of economic policy and beyond in 2020 As the year draws to a close, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Maria Demertzis, André Sapir and Guntram Wolff to review this eventful year in economic policy and beyond. The gues...

22nd December 2020 by Guntram Wolff 233 views