Clearly, three sources of use here are: Associated Press thru Yahoo Finance, FT (Financial Times), and Reuters.
The problem with Slovak Spectator (in English) is that it is a weekly. The two main Slovak newspapers are Sme and Pravda:
www.sme.sk and
www.pravda.sk . It seems the vote will be a 6pm this evening, so that would be three hours from now.
Sme is really going to town on it today whereas in previous days it had two or three articles on it per day, likewise Pravda.
Sme shows the following headlines and summations on its front page:
1. Minute by minute: the government will fall, Sulik does not want to give in. MP's decide about broadening the Euroval. The gov't is threatened with collapse, it will be decided at 6pm.
2. Europe and also Japan are waiting on the Slovak vote. Diplomats and journalists from around the world will not let the vote about the future of the euro in our parliament escape their notice.
3. Government in the final lap, writes Peter Schutz in his commentary. . . .
4. The websites of the world, on which Radicova shows up with the Euroval. German, French, and Spanish news portals inform about a possible rejection of raising the Euroval by Slovakia.
5. Smer is not interested in reconstructing the government, is not talking about elections. Smer is willing to let the coalition undergo a test. If it will not be successful and the coalition is not able to govern, all parties that support the Euroval will have to meet again according to Fico.
6. What will become of the Euroval after our NO. The European financial stability fund (EFSF), and then the Euroval, was founded in June 2010, to help indebted nations.
7. The markets are nervous ahead of the Slovak vote about the Euroval. The main European indexes are sinking, investors await the vote on the Euroval in the Slovak parliament.
8. Coalition crisis on Facebook. MP's give their views before the critical vote also on Facebook.
9. Results of surveys about the Euroval do not agree. 36% of Slovaks reject the Euroval according to the results of (one) survey.
OK, that's Sme. Now for Pravda, it's mainly this:
-- Euroval is about the survival of the euro, asserts an American expert: "If Slovakia wants for the euro to survive, you must say yes to the Euroval. If you don't want it to survive, say no," says American economist Randall Filer.
Well, that's it. I've been in contact with only one of my cousins in Slovakia so far, I may get on the phone now and talk with a few more of them to find out what they notice. Anyway, if the parliament votes no, they can come back later -- in a week or two . . . -- and vote again, if they want to. It's interesting what will happen in the short term.
The newspaper Pravda goes back decades to Communist days, now it is not Communist, but centrist, objective, "pravda" means truth in Slovak, same as Russian. Sme was started up after the downfall of communism, it means "We are", compare the Spanish somos and Latin sumus, compare Us, which followed People, and it is also centrist, objective. There is one newspaper that leans strongly right, but I forgot the name of it, I have a copy of it somewhere in my travel souvenirs along with these two and so on. I rather like it that the two main newspapers do _not_ lean in one political direction or the other, at least not significantly.
One interesting remark I saw on either Sme or Pravda a day or two ago, was one Slovak saying, "Hey, do we want to be the black sheep of Europe?"
