Esade Business & Law School

This is the English version of the original Spanish-language podcast, which you can listen to in Agenda Pública.The European Union's Open Strategic Autonomy (OSA) is a policy framework aimed at strenghten the EU's capacity to act independently in critical sectors while remaining engaged in global trade and partnerships, achieving a functional balance between self-reliance and multilateralism. In this podcast we talked to leading researchers Eva Michaels, Ester Sabatino and Catherine Barnard on the future of EU’s OSA. They draw on the conclusions of the event Integration and resilience: Single market as a basis for European open strategic autonomy that took place at the Esade campus in Madrid and was organized by EsadeGeo and Agenda Pública. Eva Michaels is an assistant professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs and a senior fellow at IBEI. Her research is situated at the intersection of European security, Intelligence Studies and International Relations. It explores how European