Cześć,

I’m working on an investigative piece about Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and his recent foreign policy choices. Given Poland’s proximity and regional leadership on Ukraine, I’d really value a Polish perspective on what’s happening next door.

Fico has:

  • Cut off all military aid to Ukraine

  • Blamed NATO for starting the war

  • Introduced laws similar to Russia’s “foreign agent” rules

  • Attended Russia’s Victory Day Parade beside Putin

  • Was blocked from flying through Baltic airspace — but Poland allowed his route, despite criticism

Some EU officials are calling him “Putin’s man in the EU.”

How is this seen in Poland?
Do you view Slovakia’s turn as a one-man shift, or part of a bigger risk to regional unity and security?

I will share the full article in the post if anyone’s interested. Would love to hear your thoughts.

My Substack Article

Dzięki!

by Partnerakro

35 comments

  1. > Blamed NATO for starting the war

    That says exactly which side he’s on.

  2. For Poland, Slovakia is irrelevant in this matter. We have bigger problems than Fico. Also, the knowledge of Slovakia affairs is non existing in Poland, I won’t sugarcoat.

  4. Just like current leader of Hungary – he is unfortunately a kremlin’s dog puting his own pocket and russian interest above his own country and europe

    Due to how EU is structured to not risk assaulting any nation’s sovereignity we unfortunately do not have tools in this organization to deal with him in a legal way

    May God be with Slovakians to help them change leadership

  5. Romania will be next, if Simion and Calin (Kremlin) Georgescu will win.

  8. Disgusting individual which hurts me because I very much appreciate our Slovakian neighbours

  10. Well, for me it is quite sad and at the same time – quite hard to understand why Slovaks are choosing people like this. But at the same as someone has pointed out – we have bigger problems than this. Slovakia is a relatively small country. Though Fico’s (and Orban’s as well, while we are at it) veto threats are quite irritating, I agree.

    And as for the regular Polish people – I believe their opinion is similar. Most people are probably just slightly irritated. Some may be indifferent (after all not everyone supports aiding Ukraine even in Poland). Some may not even know about Fico and his choices. Slovakia isn’t discussed frequently here. Though it is mentioned from time to time.

    Anyways, I really hope that you will choose a better leader next time. Both for Europe but also for your own country. You deserve better

  11. Id like to see his bank account deposits, then see his parents politics summed up. Either he is being bought by Putin or his parents were hardcore Russophilic slop who raised him in dumbass ways.

    Either way he is a relic of a worse time and culture.

  12. I always felt that its something wrong with Slovakia, every time I go there I encounter eastern style of boorishness

  13. Slovakia imported almost all of it’s natural gas and oil from Russia even after the invasion of Ukraine (even though the pipelines with the resources went straight through Ukraine) – Fico’s stance on Ukraine changed dramatically after Ukraine didn’t prolong transit deal with Russia AFAIK (but please correct me if I’m wrong) – Slovakia was in a similar situation to that of Hungary in that regard

    Edit:

    also those people in the EU who call Fico “Putin’s man in the EU” were very much “Putin’s people in the EU” (vide: the both Nord Stream projects)

  14. For such people there are no insults that describe such treason of its own people, but also to describe lowest morality such individual represents. Coward, traitor, Russian agent. No backbone. I hope that Slovenia will wake up and make trial

  16. Treason against Actual Human Civilisation. 7 days to leave Solar System. (if I was making the rules)

  19. I feel sorry for Slovacks. One traitor and everyone must explain themselfs

  21. I’m looking at another side. We need such european leaders to remind the union, we’ll always at risk of such people in different countries. They can not share our values (or see them very different). It HAS make us stronger. It HAS to help us review the unioun and evolve!

  23. It’s hard for me to understand how any
    Easter European nation can be pro russian…

    And yet here we are…

  24. very disappointed, slovakia is culturally closest to poland out of all countries we border, i hope slovaks will choose better next election.

  25. It triggers me that British and American people frequently mispronounce him as “Fiko”.

  27. At this point, I just hope Polish paratroopers land in Bratislava and dissolve that ridiculous thing called parliament and welcome us in Polish kingdom

  31. Romania watching this like:

    Oh yeah daddy, we’re gonna elect another one

  34. He’s a worthy successor of Tiso and Mečiar. Slovakia was an autocratic hole before it joined EU AND during WW2; looks like they still are a weak link. 

  35. I recently participated in a really interesting lecture given by Andrej Kiska. I think it’s worth looking at fico as a politician pandering to a political group more than anything else.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if his campaign was somewhat funded by the Kremlin, however I think his actions and support are more symptomatic of the Slovakian political landscape than anything else. The pro-Kremlin anti west rhetoric is unfortunately growing strong in the post Soviet countries.

    Slovakia, like Hungary, will pose a significant challenge to the European community as a whole. I do think the EU could have a lot of negotiating power with Slovakia should their concessions be required. Economic bargaining might trigger an adverse reaction within Slovakia, and backfire in the long run tho.

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