Breach of promise leads to isolation

With the rejection of the proposal to enlarge the euro bailout fund Prime Minister Ivata Radičová's four-party coalition has collapsed because it had tied the vote to a motion of confidence. The country has discredited itself both domestically and abroad, writes the liberal daily Sme: "Radičová's end does not bode well, apart perhaps from the fact that the [neo-liberal] SaS members of parliament can now look at themselves in the mirror with a feeling of satisfaction. Sulik's No has put an end to any chance of reform for a long time. Certainly, this government was a complicated formation. Nevertheless it was taking the country in the right direction. ... From a foreign policy perspective Slovakia has become a Euroepan eccentric that can't keep its word and menaces the entire Eurozone. There's no telling what might come our way at present, but once thing is clear: [former Social Democratic prime minister and current opposition leader] Fico will once again play a decisive role. That means there's even less hope for a normal government."

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