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The writer is the President of the European Central Bank
We have witnessed a deep shift of global ordering: Open markets and multilateral frakal rules, and even the dominant role in the US dollar, the basis of the system, is no longer sure. Protectionism, zero-sum thinking and bilateral power plays go to their place. Uncertainty is harmful to European economy, which is closely covered by global trade system, with 30mn jobs at risk.
But external transfer also offers opportunities for Europe to control its own destiny and for the euro to obtain global prominence. Currently, the euro is the second used currency in the world, accounting for 20 percent of foreign reserves, compared to 58 percent for US dollars.
Increasing the euro world condition will bring visible benefits: lower borrowing costs, reduced lapse of money changes in penalties and compulsory measures.
But one step toward the most international prominent for our money does not happen by default: it must be obtained. Like past times, concerns today about dominant money have not caused a great transfer of alternatives. Rather, it appears in a increase in need for gold.
For the euro to reach the full potential, Europe must strengthen three official columns: geopolitical credity, institutional and institutional and institutional institutional and institutional and institutional institutional and institutional integrity.
First, the euro’s global stance is left in European paper in trade. EU is the world’s largest entrepreneur – this is the number one partner for 72 countries, representing nearly 40 percent of global GDP. It appears on the part of euro as a prompt money, standing about 40 percent. EU should use this position to take advantage by holding new trading agreements.
“Extreme privilege” in an international reserve CASHValéry Giscard d’Taing mentioned in 1960, comes with responsibilities.
To avoid euro disabilities abroad, ECB enlarges transitions and repo lines to main partners to protect its orderly shipping policy.
True trust, however, resting difficult facts. Investors seek regions honoring their alliances. Such guarantee is shown to maximize part of a foreign foreign reserve to up to 30 percentage points. Europe has undergo a major transfer to rebuild power, which should also help trust the entire world trust in the euro.
Second, economic strength is the back of any international currency. Successful issuers usually offer a trio of important parts: strong growth, to attract investment; deep and liquid capital market, to support multiple transactions; and many supplies of safe assets.
But Europe is facing structural challenges. Its growth remains persistent, its capital markets are divided and – despite a strong fiscal position, with a percent compared to the US – the supply of high-quality assets in the back. Recent estimates suggest popular sovereign bonds with at least one AA value with 50 percent of the EU GDP, over 100 percent in the US.
For the euro to acquire in the situation, Europe must perform decisive measures by completing a market, decreasing regulatory plains and establishing a strong capital capital markets. Strategic industries, such as green technology and technology defense, should be supported by policies that are ordained EU-wide policies. The combined spending of public things, such as defending, produces more secure assets.
Third, the investor’s trust in a currency finally is tied to the strength of the institutions it supports. True, the EU is not easily understood from the outside. But the structures and conjunctive decisions in charge of checks and balances, strength and policy siplety. Respect for the rule of law and the freedom of the main institutions, such as the ECB, is the critical advantages of the EU should leverage.
To keep driving home these advantages, we need to ordain structure in European institutional. A veto should never be allowed to stand the way to collective interests of other member states. The more qualified most voting of critical areas can make Europe talk to a voice.
History taught us that regimes seem to endure – until they are gone. The transfer of global currency dominance has occurred previously. This opportunity to change is a chance for Europe: This is a “global euro” chance. To arrest it and enhance the euro paper in the international financial system, we must act in a profitably a United Europe who controls its own destiny.
