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The EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy from a central banking perspective - Challenges to the monetary policy landscape from a changing geopolitical environment

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  • Ioannou, Demosthenes
  • Pérez, Javier J.
  • Almeida, Ana M.
  • Balteanu, Irina
  • Kataryniuk, Ivan
  • Geeroms, Hans
  • Vansteenkiste, Isabel
  • Weber, Pierre-François
  • Attinasi, Maria Grazia
  • Buysse, Kristel
  • Campos, Rodolfo
  • Clancy, Daragh
  • Essers, Dennis
  • Faccia, Donata
  • Freier, Maximilian
  • Gerinovics, Rinalds
  • Khalil, Makram
  • Kosterink, Patrick
  • Mancini, Michele
  • Manrique, Marta
  • McQuade, Peter
  • Molitor, Philippe
  • Pulst, Daniela
  • Timini, Jacopo
  • Van Schaik, Ilona
  • Valenta, Vilém
  • Vergara Caffarelli, Filippo
  • Viani, Francesca
  • Viilmann, Natalja
  • Alonso, Daniel
  • Bencivelli, Lorenzo
  • Borgogno, Oscar
  • Borrallo, Fructuoso
  • Cuadro-Sáez, Lucía
  • Di Stefano, Enrica
  • Esser, Andreas
  • García-Lecuona, María
  • Habib, Maurizio Michael
  • Jeudy, Bruno-Philippe
  • Lájer, Andrés
  • Le Gallo, Florian
  • Martonosi, Ádám
  • Millaruelo, Antonio
  • Miola, Andrea
  • Négrin, Pauline
  • Zangrandi, Michele Savini
  • Strobel, Felix
  • Tylko-Tylczynska, Kalina Paula

Abstract

Over the past decade, geopolitical developments – and the policy responses to these by major economies around the world – have challenged economic openness and the process of globalisation, with implications for the economic environment in which central banks operate. The return of war to Europe and the energy shock triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 are the latest in a series of episodes that have led the European Union (EU) to develop its Open Strategic Autonomy (OSA) agenda. This Report is a broad attempt to take stock of these developments from a central banking perspective. It analyses the EU’s economic interdependencies and their implications for trade and finance, with a focus on strategically important dimensions such as energy, critical raw materials, food, foreign direct investment and financial market infrastructures. Against this background, the Report discusses relevant aspects of the EU’s OSA policy agenda which extends to trade, industrial and state aid measures, as well as EU initiatives to strengthen and protect the internal market and further develop Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The paper highlights some of the policy choices and trade-offs that emerge in this context and possible implications for the ECB’s monetary policy and other policies. JEL Classification: F0, F10, F30, F4, F5, F45, E42, L5, Q43

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  • Ioannou, Demosthenes & Pérez, Javier J. & Almeida, Ana M. & Balteanu, Irina & Kataryniuk, Ivan & Geeroms, Hans & Vansteenkiste, Isabel & Weber, Pierre-François & Attinasi, Maria Grazia & Buysse, Krist, 2023. "The EU’s Open Strategic Autonomy from a central banking perspective - Challenges to the monetary policy landscape from a changing geopolitical environment," Occasional Paper Series 311, European Central Bank.
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    Keywords

    capital flows; European Central Bank; European Economic and Monetary Union; financial market infrastructures; financial stability; geoeconomics; geopolitics; globalisation; global value chains; industrial policy; international trade; monetary policy; multilateralism; Open Strategic Autonomy;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F0 - International Economics - - General
    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • F30 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - General
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
    • F45 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy

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