{"id":151315,"date":"2025-06-02T05:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151315\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T05:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:35:33","slug":"slovakia-opposes-eus-plan-to-end-russian-energy-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/151315\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia opposes EU&#8217;s plan to end Russian energy imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/becbfe59f9408e3bb186b7c926309521.jpg\"\/>Slovakia&#8217;s Prime Minister Robert Fico attends his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union&#8217;s victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (PHOTO \/ POOL VIA AP)<\/p>\n<p>BRATISLAVA &#8211; Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday that his government cannot support the European Union&#8217;s (EU) proposal to completely halt nuclear fuel imports from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference, Fico said the plan would threaten the operation of nuclear power plants in Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyhk.com\/hk\/article\/602217#PM-says-Slovakia-secured-Russian-gas-amid-halted-Ukraine-transit-2025-01-13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PM Fico: Slovakia may suspend aid to Ukraine amid gas transit dispute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: PM says Slovakia secured Russian gas amid halted Ukraine transit<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission last month unveiled a new roadmap to end EU&#8217;s reliance on Russian energy. The REPowerEU Roadmap sets out a phased and coordinated plan to halt imports of Russian natural gas, oil, and nuclear materials across the 27-member bloc, according to the Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyhk.com\/hk\/article\/611871#EU-agrees-on-fresh-sanctions-against-Moscow--2025-05-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>EU agrees on fresh sanctions against Moscow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve repeatedly declared this idea of the European Commission to be harmful, ideological and damaging to the competitiveness of the European Union,&#8221; said Fico, adding that Slovakia will intervene in the EU to fight for its national interests in the preparation of legislative changes concerning oil, gas and nuclear fuel.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 2025, Slovakia has five nuclear reactors generating half of its electricity, according to the World Nuclear Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovakia&#8217;s Prime Minister Robert Fico attends his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,64549,64548,332,2558],"class_list":{"0":"post-151315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-nuclear-fuel-imports","13":"tag-prime-minister-robert-fico","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-slovakia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612150257024173","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}