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Showing posts with label sovereign-debt crisis. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Europe's Bailout Fund Overcomes a Hurdle

It appears that the world can take its eyes off Bratislava.

Slovakia's largest opposition party, after a bit of parliamentary gamesmanship, cleared the way Wednesday for the country to endorse changes to the €440 billion ($600 billion) euro-zone bailout fund that European political leaders have deemed essential to the bloc's efforts to beat back the sovereign-debt crisis.