Politics Fico does not want an "iron curtain between the EU and Russia"
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has defended his participation in the World War II commemoration in Moscow and called for renewed European cooperation with Russia. "I reject a new Iron Curtain between the EU and Russia," the left-wing nationalist said in a Facebook video on his flight back to Bratislava from Moscow. He and his government were "interested in normal, friendly and mutually beneficial relations" with the great power Russia, as well as with all other countries interested in them.
09.05.2026, 22:39
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He considered the EU's intention to completely detach itself from Russian energy supplies to be purely "ideological" and also "detrimental to European competitiveness". It is a mistake "to replace one energy dependency with another, this time an American one, which is also far more expensive, out of hatred for Russia".
Slovakia is still largely dependent on Russian oil supplies. The Fico-led government holds Ukraine partly responsible for its economic problems because it stopped the transit of Russian gas through its territory at the beginning of 2025. When no more Russian oil flowed through Ukraine from the end of January 2026, the government in Bratislava declared an "oil emergency".
