# Publications

Reducing the mobility of SARS-CoV-2 variants to safeguard containment

When the coronavirus pandemic started in 2019/2020, a number of countries reacted early, closing down public life and reducing private contacts before contagion fully took off. Countries that failed to do this saw large ...

4th May 2021 by Guntram Wolff 648 views

# podcast

Africa’s battle with COVID-19

How can we ensure a worldwide balanced and inclusive recovery from the Covid pandemic? Before the pandemic, Africa was experiencing unprecedented economic growth and poverty reduction. While many economies have faced dis...

21st April 2021 by Guntram Wolff 882 views

# podcast

A digital Yuan?

China is moving towards a digital currency but there is a long way to go. This episode is part of the ZhōngHuá Mundus series of The Sound of Economics. ZhōngHuá Mundus is a newsletter by Bruegel, bringing you monthly ana...

14th April 2021 by Guntram Wolff 805 views

# podcast

The future of CAI

my conversation with Mikko Huotari Untangling the politics behind the EU – China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment Recent sanctions and counter-sanctions between the EU and China have put the future of the Comprehens...

14th April 2021 by Guntram Wolff 770 views

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# Publications

Article in Nature: Form a climate club: United States, European Union and China

Our latest piece in Nature, DOI...

23rd March 2021 by Guntram Wolff 863 views

# 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 Guntram Wolff 2842 views

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# Publications

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

Published in Foreign Affairs,...

5th March 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1042 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 Guntram Wolff 1184 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 Guntram Wolff 1160 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 Guntram Wolff 902 views