EU-China trade and investment relations in challenging times
This report written for the European Parliament can be found here. ...
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Appellate body politics
This week, the WTO’s Appellate Body, the dispute settlement body, became inoperational: it no longer has the necessary number of judges to render verdicts. What does this mean for international trade and multilater...
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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...
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Life after the multilateral trading system
This article was published by Nikkei Veritas, Caixin, LeMonde, Handelsblatt and Corriere. The China-US trade talks, crucial as they are, divert attention from the main event: the World Trade Organization, the essential i...
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EU-China partnership after the 21st EU-China summit
I discuss with Alicia Garcia Herrero the results of the 21st EU-China Summit...
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China’s place in the global trading system
Bruegel director Guntram Wolff and senior fellow André Sapir discuss how potential WTO reform could better accommodate China. In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Guntram Wolff talks to B...
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The European Union’s response to the trade crisis
The global trading system, a source of prosperity, is under attack on various fronts. The causes run deep and require a strategic response from the European Union and from the main trading nations. The future of the syst...
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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...
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Reflections on five years of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Bruegel fellows Alicia García-Herrero and Uri Dadush join me for this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, focusing on the progress made by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, how it will con...
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Shared prosperity for the EU and north Africa
Bruegel’s director Guntram Wolff looks at north Africa’s economic growth in the light of the region’s trade agreements with the EU, welcoming Karim El Aynaoui and Uri Dadush to the Backstage series on &...
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