The debt crisis has held sway over European politics for almost four years. These turbulent times have seen numerous new agreements at the European level as well as rescue packages for individual countries of the Eurozone. In such a time of fundamental change, it can be helpful to adopt the viewpoint of an onlooker. Thus, Helena Wöhl Coelho and Matthias Schäfer put 55 questions on the European crisis to the academic Roland Benedikter, a renowned expert of European affairs. You can read his answers in this publication.