Lessons from Three Years of Euro-Area Crisis Fighting: Getting It Right Next Time

As the debate on Europe’s crisis fighting strategy deepens with the leak of a critical IMF document pointing to deep flaws in the European decision-making process, the Lisbon Council launches a new policy brief, Lessons from Three Years of Euro-Area Crisis Fighting: Getting It Right Next Time. Written by Alessandro Leipold, chief economist of the Lisbon Council and former acting director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund, the policy brief offers a nine-point strategy for improving decision making and fighting the European crisis more effectively.