
Putin Praises Slovak PM Fico for ‘Independent’ Foreign Policy
The Slovak leader has emphasized energy security while navigating relations with Russia.

The Slovak leader has emphasized energy security while navigating relations with Russia.

Amid heightened diplomatic activity, Russia and China emphasize their expanding cooperation on the global stage.

“The war in Ukraine has deformed freedom of speech in the EU,” the Slovakian PM said.

“Unusual” meetings with four Western chiefs of mission raised questions in Bratislava, with the government accusing four countries of pushing Slovakia toward “the progressive direction we reject.”

Slovak PM Robert Fico claims the British Foreign Office backed anti-government activists via a London media agency

Nationalist prime minister Robert Fico called Brussels’ plans to phase out Russian gas “idiotic.”

Slovakia’s government says EU promises fall far short of real energy guarantees.

“We want guarantees that this problem will not remain only on Slovakia’s back,” PM Fico said ahead of Tuesday’s key meeting.

Prosecutors say Juraj Cintula aimed to disrupt the Slovak government by targeting the prime minister, who survived four gunshot wounds in a 2024 attack.

EUobserver demands more “frozen funds, intrusive audits, and public insults” from Brussels, and even asks other member states to have their intelligence services spy on the sovereigntist governments.