Mr Fico, who has been under strong pressure from the Party of European Socialists (PES) to support the EFSF bill, has said that he will only do so if the government calls early elections.
This fiery fraternal message was brought to the barricades by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, on behalf of the Party of European Socialists (PES), which groups centre-left movements from Norway to Bulgaria.
Not so long ago the meeting-houses for a political faith in despondency, gatherings such as those set up by members of the Party of European Socialists (PES), an umbrella group of socialist and social-democratic parties to which all 13 governing parties belong, have begun to have influence on the continent at least, if not in more sceptical Britain.
In the end, PES leaders fudged it, with a clause saying merely that reduced social standards and wage cuts should not give one country a "competitive advantage" over another "at the expense of workers".In Britain and the Nordics, centre-left politicians have moved away from protecting existing jobs towards protecting individual workers (through things like retraining if they are made redundant).
Germany's Social Democratic victory will give these shindigs even more clout: Rudolf Scharping, who could become Germany's foreign minister, is the PES president.
This is considered an apt form of PES for protecting biodiversity, the third great forest boon, because the services associated with it are especially hard to collect on.
Under the banner of the Party of European Socialists (PES), the left touts lots of new regulations on finance, including limits on "excessive risk-taking and debt".
That could open up new markets for their bounties through payment for ecosystem services (PES), in the jargon.
China is already using it to pick the best places for new protected areas on a quarter of its territory.China has one of the world's biggest PES schemes, a decade-old reforestation effort that has delivered 9m hectares of new forest.
Envisaged as a giant PES scheme for which over 70 developing forest countries could be eligible, it comes with an ambition to halve deforestation by 2020.
First came the Party of European Socialists (PES), meeting in Prague.
