The paper is a follow-up to an article published in Technique Financière et Developpement in 2000 (see the appendix to the hardcopy version), which portrayed the first results of a new strategy in the field of development finance implemented in South-East Europe. This strategy consists in...

In spring 2010 the Euro-crisis culminated with the threatening state insolvency of Greece and Ireland. By high billion credits to both member states European Union provided an emergency fund (750 bn Euro) to avoid a similar shock like with the breakdown of US-bank Lehman Brothers and to avoid a...