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How effective have COVID-19 credit support programmes been?

COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to business. Since the first lockdowns, governments have used credit support programmes as the main instrument to mitigate the liquidity shock businesses have been facing. Hav...

17th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 59 views

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The geopolitics of the Green Deal podcast

The European Green Deal is a plan to decarbonise the EU economy by 2050, revolutionise the EU’s energy system, profoundly transform the economy and inspire efforts to combat climate change. But the plan will also have pr...

6th February 2021 by Guntram Wolff 84 views

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Where did the vaccine strategy go wrong?

One year since the pandemic began, widespread vaccination has finally started. It would be a mistake however to say the end is in sight. Senior fellows Uri Dadush and J. Scott Marcus join Bruegel director Guntram Wolff t...

20th January 2021 by Guntram Wolff 107 views

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Green transformation: a Polish perspective

In conversation with Michał Kurtyka, the Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland. Poland is sometimes characterised as the black sheep of EU climate policy: in 2019, more than 70 percent of the country’s electricit...

13th January 2021 by Guntram Wolff 100 views

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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 226 views

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Sizing up the world’s largest trade deal

What should be Europe’s strategy towards the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP)? On November 15 2020, the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Australia, China, Japan, Ne...

22nd November 2020 by Guntram Wolff 372 views

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The big brother is back?

I sat down with Esther de Lange, Vice Chair of the EPP group in the European Parliament to discuss the US elections and what they mean for the EU’s role in the world. With a Biden administration, there might be a d...

13th November 2020 by Guntram Wolff 353 views

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A European common tax space

My discussion with Sven Giegold on European tax policy Taxation is one of the few areas of financial policy which the general public has great interest in, as it affects their everyday life directly. But when we talk abo...

11th November 2020 by Guntram Wolff 328 views

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Demography and globalisation: reversing trends

A conversation on ageing societies, waning inequality, as well as an inflation revival. In this episode of The Sound of Economics, we invite Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan to talk about their most recent book: &#8216...

21st October 2020 by Guntram Wolff 449 views

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The future of EU-UK relations (again!)

On 15-16 October the European Council will take stock of the implementation of the withdrawal agreement and review the state of the negotiations on the future EU-UK partnership. Leaders will discuss preparatory work for ...

13th October 2020 by Guntram Wolff 321 views