# Publications

A green fiscal pact: climate investment in times of budget consolidation

Paper prepared for the informal ECOFIN meeting of EU finance ministers and central bank governors in Ljubljana on 10/11 September 2021. Paper is available here...

10th September 2021 by Guntram Wolff 372 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 2632 views

# podcast

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...

7th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1229 views

# podcast

How does Italy’s budget fit with EU fiscal rules?

In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff welcomes Bruegel research fellow Grégory Claeys to assess how the new Italian budget proposals measure up against the existing EU fiscal rules. Italy’s ne...

9th October 2018 by Guntram Wolff 1409 views