The financial crisis, whose signs emerged just a few years ago, and became clearly defined at the end of 2008, gave rise, in different countries and for different reasons, to a debate on the measures taken by regulatory agencies. The European organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (EUROSAI) pays special attention to all aspects of the global financial crisis and, in particular, to the changes it caused in the regulatory environment of European countries. During the VIII EUROSAI Congress that took place in Lisbon in June 2011 public auditors from 49 Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) discussed, among other themes, the direct and indirect impacts that the crisis has had on regulators in European countries.