External interactions become crises if existing
resources for handling changes are not enough
respectively are not experienced sufficiently. That
means crises are challenging existing resources for
activity, economic, social and cultural resources
or institutional standards as well as aspirations.
So they offer reason to reconsider aims and
instruments, to introduce learning processes and
reforms. This also refers to the changes after 2008,
experienced as global economic crisis. Accordingly
good material is being offered in order to examine
successful and not so successful patterns of
handling. The emphasis of the following paper is
on the Federal Republic of Germany, presently
being comparatively successful in managing the
crisis. At the same time the development in other
European countries is included to gain an outline
for the present short analysis and to derive first
generalizable conclusions.