Sunday, January 30, 2011

''SLOVAKIA 'S ISOLATION'' THE ECONOMIST

Nor has she shown much flair in foreign affairs. She earned the wrath of her fellow euro-zone leaders with a priggish refusal to contribute to the Greek bail-out. Ms Radicova says she is irked by the condoning of extravagant “social mortgages” in countries such as Spain, Portugal and Greece. But some say the government’s purist free-market principles come not from Ms Radicova but from the finance minister, Ivan Miklos, the brainy mastermind of Slovakia’s pro-market reforms of ten years ago.

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