THE THREATS TO THE EUROPEAN UNION’S ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY Memo to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Bruegel Policy Brief

Pisani-Ferry, Jean and Wolff, Guntram B. (2019) THE THREATS TO THE EUROPEAN UNION’S ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY Memo to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Bruegel Policy Brief. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

Economics used to play a limited role in foreign policy, which was about wars, conflicts and human disasters – and how to avoid them. But neither China nor the United States now separates economics from geopolitics. The competition between them is simultaneously an economic competition and a security competition. This is a threat to the multilateral system the European Union has relied on for nearly seven decades and to the EU’s separation of external economic relationships from geopolitics. You and your Commission colleagues must redefine for the EU its concept of economic sovereignty and the instruments it needs to defend and promote it.

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