Eurozone crisis live: Greece on alert after weekend attacks Good morning, and welcome to our rolling coverage of the eurozone financial crisis, and other events in the world economy. The head of the International Monetary Fund has reinforced the optimistic mood in the eurozone by declaring that the region's economy is improving. Christine Lagarde predicted that Europe's economy will begin to recover in 2013, in an interview with the BBC World Service broadcast this morning. Lagarde also argued that Greece will show 'better results' than planned, but must make more efforts on tax recovery. She said: We forecast the eurozone to be delivering growth in 2013, which is better than the recession that it has experienced in 2012. There is an improvement, and there is the beginning of recovery. The IMF chief cited regional initiatives to strengthen the single currency, such as the move towards banking union, as well as the measures implemented by individual countries. It's clearly the case that investors are returning to the eurozone, and resuming confidence in that market. Photograph: BBC While Greece is still expected to suffer another desperately tough year, Lagarde argued that the country might actually outperform over the next 12 months. What technical analysis and the history of crisis management tells us, is that you're better of doing it strong and hard at the beginning in order to reap the benefits of the process Greece has done a huge and massive effort in cutting expenses, in bringing the deficit down, in turning to primary equilibrium if not surplus now -- which is the good news. The country is going to turn out better results than what was even planned - but it has to continue doing a massive effort on collection of revenue and collection of tax. It's interesting to hear Lagarde return to the issue of tax evasion in Greece. Last May, her claim that many Greeks were "trying to escape tax' sparked a major backlash. You can listen to the full interview here (start at 11.25 minutes in), or watch a video clip here. Lagarde's comments echo the upbeat views expressed by ECB president Mario Draghi last Thursday - he also predicted that economic activity should "gradually recover" this year. Neither Lagarde or Draghi are claiming that the crisis is actually over -- but both appear to genuinely believe that the worst is behind us.... It's hard to see anything disrupting this view today, even though the stumbling progress towards a bailout for Cyprus is a potential roadblock. Here's what's coming up today: Left-wing Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras is meeting German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble in Berlin Eurozone industrial production data for November - 10am GMT As usual, I'll be tracking the latest developments....