De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Annexed to the Maastricht Treaty as Protocol No. 4, the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and the European Central Bank entered force with the ECB's establishment on 1 June 1998. It enshrined price stability as the primary mandate, prohibited monetary financing of governments (Article 123 TFEU), and made the ECB Governing Council operationally independent of national governments — a Bundesbank-modelled architecture for the single currency.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.