In today's Wall Street journal , we look at Tuesday's vote in Slovakia - here's the full piece: Richard Sulik has emerged as B...

...Slovakian MPs would be up to their eyes in them. The Slovakian EFSF vote has provided us with plenty of action over the past few days, w...

As expected, it now looks as if parties in the Slovakian parliament have come to an agreement over the ratification of the EFSF. The opposit...

Yesterday's Handelsblatt featured a story on how an " Eastern European Tea Party " is brewing, as Slovakia's Freedom and ...

In our post last week, we set out the current state of play regarding the ratification of the expansion of the EFSF by the 17 eurozone’s me...

Below is the current status of the EFSF upgrade as ratified by national parliaments. A reminder that this is the vote on the package of meas...

If you think that Europe's toughest economic hawks sit in Frankfurt or dwell within Ifo - the flagship German econmic institute - thin...

The eurozone's embarrassing collateral-for-loans spat continues , with member states disagreeing over whether Finland should be allowed...

This week saw another twist in the ongoing soap opera which is the eurozone bailouts. The Finnish government - no doubt feeling the anti-bai...

At Open Europe, we tend to find comparisons between the EU and the USSR rather far-fetched. The reason is simple: not only does the EU, fo...

In today's Wall Street Journal we argue , "When European Union leaders forged their monetary union without a full political and eco...

Negotiations on the shape and form of the eurozone's permanent bailout scheme - the " European Stability Mechanism (ESM) " - ...

The Open Europe team must confess to have developed a certain fascination with Slovakia of late - a small country which hides a core of tena...

The Slovakian Parliament has overturned the decision by the country's previous government to help fund the €110bn eurozone bailout of ...

The new Slovakian government is not bowing to pressure over its refusal to sign off on the eurozone bailout package. After a meeting with Eu...