# Publications

The governance and funding of European rearmament

Europe must accelerate rearmament through deeper cooperation and innovative governance to counter Russia’s aggression and shifting US policies. Our policy presented at the informal ECOFIN meeting in Warsaw on 12 April (l...

8th April 2025 by Guntram Wolff, Armin Steinbach, Jeromin Zettelmeyer 11 views

# Publications

Defending Europe without the US: first estimates of what is needed

Study for Bruegel and Kiel Institute. Lot’s of press coverage, including FT, Politico, Economist, FAZ, Spiegel, Bloomberg, Le Monde, AFP, Les Echos, a video discussion on Deutsche Welle and many many others. Also r...

24th February 2025 by Alex Burilkov, Guntram Wolff 25 views

# Publications

Getting serious about European defence intergration: The European Defence Community precedent

a working paper published here....

# Blog, Interviews

L’union monétaire européenne doit renforcer son soutien militaire et financier aux pays baltes

L’adhésion à la zone euro signifie qu’il faut faire plus pour la défense mutuelle des pays qui en sont membres, notamment l’Estonie, la Lettonie et la Lituanie, qui sont directement exposées aux conséquences de la guerre...

26th January 2025 by Guntram Wolff 32 views

# Blog, Publications

Can American Abandonment Help Europe?

The Continent Has a Chance to Address Its Own Weaknesses – Our piece in Foreign Affairs...

7th January 2025 by Arancha González Laya, Camille Grand, Katarzyna Pisarska, Nathalie Tocci, and Guntram Wolff 35 views

# Blog, Publications

The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe

Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere. Our piece for Bruegel....

18th December 2024 by Alexander Burilkov, Juan Mejino López, Guntram Wolff 37 views

# Blog, Interviews

Deutschland braucht mehr finanzielle Ressourcen für die Verteidigung – noch vor der Wahl

Artikel in der FAZ, in dem wir argumentieren, dass eine Reform der Schuldenbremse für die Verteidigung sinnvoll und richtig ist, Published in 29 November 2024....

29th November 2024 by Clemens Fuest, Moritz Schularick, Armin Steinbach, Guntram Wolff 42 views

# Publications

A European defence industrial strategy in a hostile world

Bruegel Policy Brief (here) Executive summary Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has brought war back to Europe. Failing to stop Russia’s aggression would leave Europe at a critical disadvantage for decades, with a lon...

26th November 2024 by Juan Mejino-Lopez, Guntram Wolff 39 views

# Blog, Interviews

Europe stands increasingly alone on defence production and needs to act

Oped published on Bruegel, Welt, Le Monde, Rzeczpospolita and others. Europe must rebuild its defence industry; reliance on the US is no longer tenable, whatever the outcome of the US presidential election Europeans migh...

4th November 2024 by Alexandr Burilkov, Guntram Wolff 52 views

# Blog, Interviews

Less complacency, more investment: a European defence procurement strategy would be cheaper

Oped published in Handelsblatt, Corriere della Serra, Helsingin, Bruegel and others. Two and a half years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the question of armaments and the speed of military procurement a...

11th October 2024 by Guntram Wolff 118 views