# 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 160 views

# podcast

A decade of economic policy

As his time as Bruegel Director comes to an end, Guntram Wolff sits down with Giuseppe Porcaro to discuss the highs, lows and shifts of economic policy in Europe over the past decade and Bruegel’s con...

30th June 2022 by Guntram Wolff 474 views

# podcast

A fitting plan for the European Green Deal?

On 14 July, the European Commission finally announced a large package of measures that will make the EU the first mover in the race limit global warming, with measures targeting all sectors in a deepening and broadening ...

15th July 2021 by Guntram Wolff 929 views

# Blog, Interviews

The EU can’t separate climate policy from foreign policy

This opinion piece was originally published in Rzeczpospolita, Domani, Le Monde and La Vanguardia. The European Union’s goal of climate neutrality by 2050 is not only a revolutionary exercise in shifting the continent’s ...

5th March 2021 by Guntram Wolff 1364 views

# podcast

Green transformation: a Polish perspective

In conversation with Michał Kurtyka, the Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland. Poland is sometimes characterised as the black sheep of EU climate policy: in 2019, more than 70 percent of the country’s electricit...

13th January 2021 by Guntram Wolff 721 views

# podcast

Can the European Green Deal kill the single market?

The European Green Deal is one of the landmarks of Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission. But, without an ambitious investment behind it, what could be its potential implications for the EU? Could it go as far as to th...

27th February 2020 by Guntram Wolff 1151 views

# podcast

How to make the European Green Deal work (part 2)

Don’t worry if you missed part one because all of Bruegel’s pillars for a European Green Deal are created equal. This time, Nicholas Barrett and Guntram Wolff discuss industrial policy and the social conseque...

13th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1269 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 1596 views

# Blog

Demystifying carbon border adjustment for Europe’s green deal

European Commission President-Elect Ursula von der Leyen has made a strong plea to accelerate Europe’s transition to a “green” economy with the goal of achieving ambitious targets of reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emi...

4th November 2019 by Guntram Wolff 2388 views