{"id":4887,"date":"2026-05-04T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/4887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:36:09","slug":"fico-zelenskyy-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/4887\/","title":{"rendered":"Fico-Zelenskyy meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/defence24.com\/author-page\/patryk-jagnieza\" target=\"_self\" class=\"article-author-block__avatar-wrap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/YRN6zjPjOsFTEmIc51TxanW10Bn0BuWa5NqsZOvP.5aon.jpg\" alt=\"\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\" author=\"Robert Suchy\/Defence24\" caption=\"\" fullscreen=\"https:\/\/cdn.defence24.pl\/2026\/02\/26\/1920xpx\/YRN6zjPjOsFTEmIc51TxanW10Bn0BuWa5NqsZOvP.6isu.jpg\" class=\"img article-author-block__avatar img-avatar\"\/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>During the 8th summit of the European Political Community in Yerevan, a behind-the-scenes meeting took place between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Should we expect a shift in the current policy of the Slovak administration?<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AX4zZjp4D6w5UgXZoNkKBI2e0nRmaDR6gWR5fVfE.wjkg.jpg\" alt=\"Fico Zelenskyy\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" author=\"@ZelenskyyUa \/ X.com\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"img image-with-caption__image\"\/><br \/>\n        Photo. @ZelenskyyUa \/ X.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">\u201cUkraine is open to a constructive dialogue with Slovakia and is interested in developing strong relations,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on social media. The discussion covered cooperation in various fields as well as preparations for a joint government meeting between the two countries in the near future. Reciprocal visits to Kyiv and Bratislava were also considered. The Slovak Prime Minister reportedly expressed support for Ukraine\u2019s accession to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk commented on the change in Robert Fico\u2019s policy. \u201cAs we know, Prime Minister Fico\u2019s relations with Moscow are better than the European average, but it is quite clear that there is a certain (\u2026) pragmatic adjustment in his course.\u201d The two prime ministers were said to have discussed the possible participation of President Zelenskyy as a special guest at the upcoming V4 summit. Following the change of government in Hungary, the parties have decided to rebuild the Visegr\u00e1d Group format, which brings together Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-module\">The shift in Robert Fico\u2019s policy is driven by Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s loss of power. With Peter Magyar\u2019s rise to leadership, the Slovak Prime Minister has lost an anti-European and anti-Ukrainian ally. It is indeed true that a pragmatic change can be observed in Robert Fico\u2019s behavior. An overall improvement in Ukrainian-Slovak relations and the resumption of Visegr\u00e1d Group meetings can be expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the 8th summit of the European Political Community in Yerevan, a behind-the-scenes meeting took place between Ukrainian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[857,64,354,9,612,1093,127,371,4021,3350,790],"class_list":{"0":"post-4887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-tusk","8":"tag-czech-republic","9":"tag-donald-tusk","10":"tag-hungary","11":"tag-poland","12":"tag-robert-fico","13":"tag-slovakia","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-viktor-orban","16":"tag-visegrad","17":"tag-visegrad-group","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}