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Europe’s migration policy challenge

Immigration is one of the most contentious policy matters currently facing the EU. In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ Bruegel director Guntram Wolff welcomes Ana Palacio, member of the Spanish council of ...

15th September 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1617 views

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Turkey’s crisis and what should be Europe’s response

I welcome Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Jean Pisani-Ferry, mercator senior fellow at Bruegel, to discuss the deterioration of Turkey’s economy. Although a recent souring of rel...

27th August 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1629 views

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The drama of the EU and the euro area

I discuss with Ashoka Mody, visiting professor in international economic policy at Princeton University his latest book “Euro tragedy: a drama in nine acts”. We talk about the legacy of Helmut Kohl, the role...

28th June 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2150 views

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Central banking and the problem of unelected power

Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, joins me to discuss the thesis of his new book, as well as the current tensions within current models of central banking governance. We discuss whether the ECB ...

5th June 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2187 views

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What risk does Italy’s new government pose to the euro area?

I discuss here with Francesco Papadia, Bruegel senior fellow, the situation in Italy. The coalition agreement between Italy’s Five Star Movement and the League puts the country’s new government on a potential collision c...

24th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 2234 views

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EU policy priorities towards Capital Markets Union

The deepening and enlargement of Europe’s capital markets has long been a policy target for the EU – indeed, it is a flagship priority of the current Commission. Many legislative proposals have been forwarded, and there ...

8th May 2018 by Guntram Wolff 7661 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 7834 views

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Developing deposit insurance in Europe

In this week’s Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’ podcast, Bruegel director Guntram Wolff talks with Nicolas Véron, senior fellow at Bruegel, about the implementation of a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS)...

5th April 2018 by Guntram Wolff 7358 views

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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 8427 views

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EU budget: Scope to reform Common Agricultural Policy

In this episode of ‘The Sound of Economics’, I talk with Lars Hoelgaard, former deputy director general at DG AGRI, regarding the possibilities for reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the consequences for t...

20th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 6092 views