The European economy is well placed to bounce back from years of crisis, a leading International Monetary Fund figure said on Friday, while warning of disruptions to the continent’s recovery. The IMF is “forecasting a soft landing,” said Alfred Kammer, the director of the agency’s European Department, in remarks at the spring meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington. “Policymakers did a remarkable job” in responding to the economic shocks brought on by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the “population clearly is still in pain,” Kammer said. Europe must tread a cautious …