# Blog, Interviews

For a green European Industrial Policy

This is a translation of an article that first appeared in German as an op-ed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on February 26, 2023. Massive green industrial policy interventions in China and the United States have put Europe ...

1st March 2023 by Marcel Fratzscher, Achim Wambach, Guntram Wolff 5 views

# Publications

Managing Risks in the EU-China Economic Relationship

As the German Chancellor heads to Beijing – the first visit by a G7 leader since the pandemic began, Germany and the EU must reevaluate their approach to China, especially after the recent Communist Party Congress furthe...

1st November 2022 by Claudia Schmucker, Guntram Wolff 21 views

# Blog, Interviews

Scholz must send a clear message on his visit to Beijing

My column in the Financial Times is here...

31st October 2022 by Guntram Wolff 22 views

# Blog

The EU without Russian oil and gas

The EU and the West need to acknowledge and accept the fact that European liberal democracy is being defended in Ukraine – a clearer message to Putin is needed. A slow and gradual phasing out of Russian fossil fuel is ne...

6th April 2022 by Guntram Wolff 1100 views

# Blog

Germany’s current account surplus after the Covid recession

In 2019, Germany ran a current account surplus of $290 billion, the largest in the world. Germany’s current account surplus is persistently large: from 2011 to 2020, it never dropped below 6% of GDP and remained above 7%...

26th October 2021 by Guntram Wolff 22636 views

# Interviews

Bloomberg Green: Germany election special

My interview on Bloomberg green...

4th October 2021 by Guntram Wolff 391 views

# Blog

German elections: seizing the moral and economic opportunity of global health security

This blog is part of a series by CGD and partnering institutions from Germany focused on presenting specific policy proposals for the next German government’s leadership on global development issues. The COVID-19 pandemi...

25th September 2021 by Guntram Wolff 774 views

# Blog

Germany’s foreign economic policy: four essential steps

Germany and the EU need to develop a strong and proactive agenda to manage foreign economic relations, which are essential for German and European prosperity. Germany’s foreign economic policy has barely got a mention in...

23rd September 2021 by Guntram Wolff 588 views

# Blog, Interviews

Schädliche Kritik: Die EZB hat mit ihrer Geldpolitik viel richtig gemacht

Die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank hat der EU geholfen. Deshalb sollte darüber neu und konstruktiv debattiert werden. Der Gastbeitrag für Frankfurter Rundschau. Die neue EZB-Präsidentin Christine Lagarde hätte ...

14th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 2044 views

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# Blog

Germany’s even larger than expected fiscal surpluses: Is there a link with the constitutional debt brake?

Germany is having a political debate on the adjustment of its budgetary plans due to revised forecasts, and an academic debate on the debt brake. Yet, since 2011, general government revenues and surpluses have been syste...

13th May 2019 by Guntram Wolff 8845 views