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By Albin Sybera in Bratisava The leftist Smer party of the Slovak populist Prime Minister is set to remain isolated in the European Parliament after Fico slammed the European Socialists & Democrats as “having nothing in common” with left-wing politics and social democracy. Fico made the comments in a YouTube video shortly after a veteran Smer politician and a leader of Smer’s five MEPs, Monika Benova, told media that she “won’t be talking to socialists any further” over Smer’s joining of their European Parliament fraction, as bne IntelliNews reported last week. The Party of European Socialists…

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