Slovakia must support EU rescue fund

The finance ministers of the Eurozone on Monday raised the pressure on the new leadership in Bratislava. Slovakia continues to refuse its support for the 750 billion euro rescue fund for Eurozone countries in crisis. The liberal daily Sme counsels the government to come to its senses: "The stability fund is not the right issue on which to test Slovakia's new Euro-realism. We may think what we please about this obligation, but we must not reject it. It's fine for [Finance Minister] Mikloš to express major criticisms of Europe's aid to Greece or the rescue plan. But he must not believe he can be the first to introduce cracks in this protective wall. On the contrary, he should think very seriously about where Slovakia's interests lie, for example in not offending Germany."

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