# podcast

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 7890 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 7413 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 8481 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 6144 views

# Interviews

a podcast on steel and what Donald Trump’s tariffs mean for world trade

my radio interview with radio France internationale in English...

10th March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1451 views

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Euro area governance: where next

Manfred Weber, Gideon Rachmann, Maria Demertzis and myseld in a free-flowing conversation on euro area governance....

1st March 2018 by Guntram Wolff 5723 views

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The new EU budget and the future of the Spitzenkandidaten process

Here, I frame the two debates that will dominate the upcoming meeting of the European Council – the shape of the next EU budget, and the method by which a new European Commission president will be appointed....

21st February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 5176 views

# Interviews

Barnier: Brexit transition not a given

My contribution to the BBC’s world business report is here....

9th February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1744 views

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What the German coalition agreement means for Europe

The final document on the German coalition agreement will have significant consequences for the European Union and the Eurozone. Bruegel director Guntram Wolff gives his assessment of the agreement’s key features i...

7th February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 5202 views

# Interviews

European Parliament: More representative post-Brexit?

Brexit has afforded the European Parliament with the opportunity to reform – but will the current proposals for reallocating the UK’s 73 seats after 2019 fully realise that opportunity? In the latest chapter of ‘The Soun...

5th February 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1424 views