EBF Paper: Open Strategic Autonomy & Market Access

17 September 2024

What is the role of banks in the OSA debate and what is the optimal contribution of the European banking sector to the EU’s OSA goals? To what extent is a sector-specific approach needed?

We publish this paper with the hope of contributing the European banking sector’s view to an important public discussion around OSA and market access.

We start by recognizing that, despite the explicit inclusion of financial services in these discussions, there still remain a number of important questions that are unclear.

Without claiming to resolve all open questions, we set out to provide high-level answers to two key questions:

• What is the role of banks in the OSA debate and what is the optimal contribution of the European banking sector to the EU’s OSA goals? To what extent is a sector-specific approach needed? (Section 2)
• Which policies would boost the banking sector’s contribution to the EU’s goals in relation to OSA? (Section 3)

Read the full paper here.

 

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