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epa02962089 Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova (top R) and chairman of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) Jan Figel (top L) listen to a speech of the chairman of Slovakia's strongest opposition party SMER Social Democracy, Robert Fico, during the parliamentary session about the vote on extending the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), in Bratislava, Slovakia, 11 October 2011. One of the parties in Slovakia's four-way coalition government insisted it would not back an expansion of the eurozone bailout fund when parliament votes in Bratislava later on 11 October, jeopardizing an EU financial rescue plan. Slovakia is the last of the 17 members of the eurozone to vote on the measure, which is seen as key to plans to ward off a growing financial crisis affecting the single currency bloc, the wider European Union and the global economy as a whole. EPA/PETER HUDEC