# podcast

European strategic autonomy: a stronger euro comes with more responsibility

What does strategic sovereignty mean to and for Europe? European strategic autonomy is probably the single most used watchword in European circles, if only because of lack of consensus about what it entails. US bashing f...

20th May 2021 by Guntram Wolff 609 views

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# Blog

For the euro there is no shortcut to becoming a dominant currency

(Auch auf Deutsch auf Makronom) When created two decades ago, the euro immediately became the world’s second most important currency. But it has remained a distant second to the US dollar. Its internationalisation peaked...

13th October 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1624 views

# Publications

Is the COVID-19 crisis an opportunity to boost the euro as a global currency?

• The euro became an international currency when it was created two decades ago. However, the euro’s internationalisation peaked as early as 2005 and it was never comparable to the US dollar. Its international status dec...

10th June 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1443 views

# podcast

Will COVID-19 boost the euro as a global currency?

The euro is, by definition an international currency. However, since being established in the late 90s the single currency has always been somewhat less than the sum of it’s parts and has yet to challenge the US do...

5th June 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1173 views

# podcast

From health crisis to economic crisis and now euro area crisis?

my conversation with Jean Pisani-Ferry and Maria Demertzis...

18th March 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1065 views

# Interviews

Vision prospective sur l’Europe

9th November 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1805 views

# Interviews

Interview in Bulgarian Capital

For my colleagues and friends in Bulgaria, here is my extensive summer interview in Capital.bg....

11th August 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1442 views

# Blog

Europa sinnvoll gestalten

This opinion piece was published in FAZ on Friday, 28 April, 2017. Weder gute Wachstums- und Beschäftigungszahlen noch das schlechter als erwartete Abschneiden des Populisten Geert Wilders können darüber hinwegtäu...

30th April 2017 by Guntram Wolff 2344 views

# Interviews

Ein europäischer Währungsfond?

My comments on a European Monetary Fund given to WDR German radio are here and here...

24th April 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1716 views

# Interviews

Frexit: De facto wäre das ein Staatsbankrott

Christoph Pauly interviews me in Spiegel online on potential consequences of France leaving the euro here....

13th March 2017 by Guntram Wolff 1771 views