At global level, the resources and capabilities of the international financial institutions, especially the IMF and the World Bank, will have to be mobilized. In the European Union, there are the instruments and institutions needed to give concrete support to some neighbouring countries that look to the EU as an anchor of stability. There is no reason to give in to discouragement.
Rather, it is an opportunity for the country, all of us, to demonstrate our ability to protect the weakest, to open up new paths for the future. 8  BIS Review 22/2009