Me­dia

WTO Chief Economist Ralph Ossa: “Globalization is kind of a scapegoat”

The fi­nan­cial cri­sis, the Coro­na pan­dem­ic and the war in Ukraine are in­creas­ing­ly rais­ing voic­es that blame glob­al­iza­tion for these crises. On the one hand, there are the ad­van­tages of eco­nom­ic in­ter­de­pen­dence, but on the oth­er hand, there is the dan­ger of states giv­ing up their eco­nom­ic in­de­pen­dence. Glob­al­iza­tion skep­ti­cism is on the rise.

In an in­ter­view with the Frank­furter All­ge­meine Zeitung, Ralph Ossa ex­plains why glob­al­iza­tion in par­tic­u­lar en­ables us to over­come these crises in the first place. He also dis­cuss­es how cli­mate change can be com­bat­ed thanks to glob­al­iza­tion and talks about the ef­fects of the in­creas­ing bloc for­ma­tion be­tween East and West.

Read ar­ti­cle (in Ger­man)