Slovakia Against the Enlargement of the Euro Zone Bailout Fund

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: October 12, 2011; 17:03 ♦ (Vindobona)

After six hours of heated debate Slovak lawmakers failed to approved the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF).

Slovakia Against the Enlargement of the Euro Zone Bailout Fund / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Blackfish [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

Since the vote on the bailout was at the same time the vote on the vote of confidence for the Prime Minister Iveta Radičova, coalition spilt and government collapsed. Slovakia, the poorest country of the Euro zone, is the only one that has rejected the changes in EFSF. The enlargement of Euro Zone Bailout Fund assumes that the Slovak share in the Fund will increase from € 4,4bln to…