Janota says Czechs might be called on to help shore-up troubled eurozone

Finance Minister Eduard Janota has not ruled out Czech participation in an EU effort to shore up the troubled eurozone. Speaking in a televised debate on Sunday minister Janota said several aid-mechanisms were on the table of a meeting of the 27 EU finance ministers in Brussels later that day. The Czech finance minister said that either way the Czech economy would feel the impact of this crisis as a result of growing interests on state bonds. The Czech Finance Ministry had been planning a new emission of euro bonds but is now considering whether to issue any new bonds at all.