Robert Fico, against Europe’s divisions with Russia now that America is abandoning it

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the only EU statesman to attend the Victory Day parade in Moscow, called on Sunday, May 10, for renewed cooperation between Europe and Russia.

“I reject the new Iron Curtain between the EU and Russia,” Fico said in a video message posted on Facebook during the flight back from Moscow to Bratislava.

He said he and his government have “an interest in normal, friendly and mutually beneficial relations” with the great power Russia, as well as with all other countries that are interested in it.

The EU’s aim to completely deprive itself of Russian energy sources is considered exclusively “ideological” and “harmful to European competitiveness”. much more expensive” just out of hatred for Russia.

Slovakia is still very dependent on Russian oil supplies. The Fico-led government holds Ukraine partly responsible for its economic woes because it stopped the transit of Russian gas through its territory in early 2025.

In that regard, Slovakia announced in late April that it would resume receiving Russian oil after Kiev repaired part of the Druzhba pipeline, which runs through Ukraine and was damaged by a Russian airstrike in January.

Putin hosted Fico in Moscow on on Saturday and praised the Slovak government’s “sovereign foreign policy”.

Russia, he said, would do “everything possible to meet Bratislava’s energy needs”. /tesheshi

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Source: prizrenpost