Change in the rating of european countries in connection with the debt crisis

This paper deals with the rating with a focus on finding the main causes of changes in the rating during the debt crisis in Europe. The first chapter describes the main characters, types of rating and differences between the rating and other evaluation methods. Next part of this paper is about the world-wide rating agencies. In the end I analyze changes in ratings on the specific examples of European countries, on which had the debt crisis the greatest impact