{"id":167952,"date":"2025-06-08T15:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167952\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T15:53:09","slug":"slovak-pm-threatens-to-block-eu-sanctions-against-russia-if-they-harm-national-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/167952\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak PM threatens to block EU sanctions against Russia if they harm national interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Fico. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to block any EU sanctions on Russia that harm Slovakia\u2019s national interests.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/pm-fico-says-slovakia-will-block-eu-sanctions-russia-if-they-harm-national-2025-06-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Fico stressed that Slovakia seeks to remain a constructive EU member but described a resolution passed by the Slovak parliament, urging the government not to support any new sanctions against Russia, as a political tool with a strong message.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> &#8220;If there is a sanction that would harm us, I will never vote for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>More details: <\/strong>Fico also said he could not support any measures aimed at halting imports of Russian fuel for Slovakia\u2019s nuclear power plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am interested in being a constructive player in the European Union, but not at the expense of Slovakia,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 5 June, Slovakia\u2019s parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/06\/5\/7515772\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adopted a resolution<\/a> urging government members to withhold support for new sanctions and trade restrictions against Russia in international organisations.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 4 June, Slovak President Peter Pellegrini rejected a petition calling for a referendum on lifting sanctions against Russia.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">In March, Fico threatened to block further European sanctions against Russia if he views them as jeopardising the peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Fico. Photo: Getty Images Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to block any EU sanctions on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,332,2663,2558],"class_list":{"0":"post-167952","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-russia","12":"tag-sanctions","13":"tag-slovakia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114648554116228815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167952","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=167952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}