… This book is not a memoir, although one of us (Valdis Dombrovskis) has been prime minister
of Latvia since March 2009 and had been deeply involved with the country’s response to …

The European Union (EU) is strongly committed to achieving the climate commitments of the
Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Considerable …

The topic of this panel–Managing the Crisis–has been the leitmotiv of my term as Prime
Minister of Latvia. In my remarks I will look back at the roots of the crisis in Latvia and highlight …

European Stability Mechanism (ESM), 117, 120, 135, 147, 181, 189, 193, 213, 245, 260, 274,
287 Europe. See IMF aftermath of austerity, 243 banking problems, 2–3 British position on, …

219 Adenauer, Konrad, 85, 93 Albania, 75 Algeria, 77– 8 Amsterdam Treaty (1999), 25, 80–
1, 132, 175 Commission President, 1 Page 1 219 INDEX Adenauer, Konrad, 85, 93 Albania …

In the 20 years since the ‘Baltic Way’, a common identity has resurfaced among the Baltic
states, which are bound by strong geo-strategic interests and political ties to the European …

Over the past decade, the European Union (EU) has built a new regulatory architecture for
its financial system, with a single rulebook for all financial actors across the single market. At …

The following item is a Letter of Intent of the government of the Republic of Latvia, which
describes the policies that the Republic of Latvia intends to implement in the context of its …

An intriguing aspect of the crisis has been the political economy of Latvia’s financial stabilization,
which was carried out by a coalition govern- ment of some four parties, sometimes with …

There is little defense for the overheating of Latvia’s economy, but the way the country
navigated and successfully overcame the crisis is where we find lessons for Latvia itself and for …