On the 10th and 11th of May, CEDRU attended a workshop on the theme “Stimulating Growth in EMU´s Periphery: Identifying Measures for Immediate Resolve" organized by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation. The workshop focused on debating the processes of economic transformation that has occurred in Central and Western Europe in order to be possible to find mechanisms to combat the economic and financial crisis in the European peripheral countries.