The science of Brexit
Michael Leigh, Maria Demertzis and I discuss the future of EU-UK relations. Our special focus on future collaboration in research and development exemplifies how tricky it will be to reach an agreement....
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AI in Europe: a conversation with Google’s CEO
This week, I talked to Google and Alphabet’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. We focused on AI, why and how it should be regulated and on whether we should worry about big companies like google. And many other things: listen in...
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Interviewing Magrethe Vestager on how competition policy helps “small” people, AI and the role of data and how industrial policy should evolve
Will AI exacerbate the gap between big companies and small ones? Do ordinary Europeans gain anything from having European tech giants? This week, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff went to the Berlaymont to interview Mar...
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Capture the nodes
How do states exercise power through global economic networks? The multilateral world order is supposed to be harmonious, but by seizing the nodes of production, powerful forces can control access to the global economic ...
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Appellate body politics
This week, the WTO’s Appellate Body, the dispute settlement body, became inoperational: it no longer has the necessary number of judges to render verdicts. What does this mean for international trade and multilater...
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The Belt and Road anxiety
Is the Belt and Road initiative a global development plan or is it just a trade project? How concerned should the international community be with what is called the “project of the century”? This week, Guntra...
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Ethics and Algorithms
Will EU tech regulations undermine its ability to innovate? From facial recognition to the production of “deep fakes”, artificial intelligence poses many ethical questions. In a world where China and the US are investing...
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Cars, steel and national security – the EU-US trade spat
I am joined by Alan Beattie, the author of the FT’s new Trade Secrets newsletter, and by Andre Sapir, Bruegel’s very own trade expert to discuss President Trump’s tariffs and whether or not they’r...
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How to make the European Green Deal work (part 2)
Don’t worry if you missed part one because all of Bruegel’s pillars for a European Green Deal are created equal. This time, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss industrial policy and the social conseque...
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How to make the European Green Deal work (Part One)
The European Green Deal will be a defining feature of Ursula Von der Leyen’s incoming Commission. But will carbon border taxes and single carbon prices be enough to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050? This week, N...
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