Boris Vujčić: Integrated, open and resilient: Europe’s strengths in a fragmenting world

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Speech by Boris Vujčić, Vice-President of the ECB, at the Central Bank of Ireland’s Financial System Conference Thank you to the Central Bank of Ireland for organising this conference and inviting me to speak. It is a great pleasure to be here in Dublin. Ireland illustrates why the topics of today’s event – from geopolitics to financial resilience – are timely. Ireland has one of the most open economies in the world and it is deeply integrated into European and global markets. It is a Single Market success story, and a reminder that openness remains one of Europe’s greatest strengths. But openness works both ways. A shift in US trade policy or a turn in global capital flows can spill over to the Irish economy particularly quickly. What is true for Ireland is also true on a larger scale for the EU, the world’s largest trading bloc. [ 1 ] So, the question I would like to discuss today is simple to ask but harder to answer: how do we retain the benefits of an open economy in a more…

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