# 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 10 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 38 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 51 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

# Publications

Memo to the commissioner responsible for defence

You face the major challenges of Russian imperialism in the context of a potential United States retreat from Europe and a complex EU defence situation in which defence governance is spread across EU countries and variou...

5th September 2024 by Guntram Wolff 119 views

# Interviews

BBC world interview: a bad week for European security

2nd March 2024 by Guntram Wolff 125 views

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# Publications

Trump-Proofing Europe

How the Continent Can Prepare for American Abandonment Our article in Foreign Affairs Our article in German Council on Foreign Relations...

6th February 2024 by Arancha González Laya, Camille Grand, Katarzyna Pisarska, Nathalie Tocci, and Guntram Wolff 140 views

# Blog

Germany’s Support of Israel Needs to Lead to Strategic Action

comment for DGAP The brutal terrorist attack of Hamas on Israel has shocked Germany. Attacks against civilians are never justified. All political parties, except for those on the extreme Right and Left, have issued stron...

12th October 2023 by Guntram Wolff 136 views

# Blog, Interviews

Anpassung an den Energieschock. Das sind die Prioritäten für Deutschland und Zentraleuropa

Oped in die WELT Guntram Wolff Deutschland und die mittel- und osteuropäischen Länder erleben seit dem Anfang des Krieges einen außergewöhnlichen Energieschock. Im Laufe eines halben Jahres hat ihr wichtigster Erdgaslief...

16th December 2022 by Guntram Wolff 166 views

# podcast

Balancing free trade with national security interests

In this episode of Director’s Cut, Stephanie Segal of CSIS joins Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis for a conversation about the tension between free trade and national security issues, and the emerg...

20th February 2019 by Guntram Wolff 1343 views