{"id":168439,"date":"2025-06-08T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168439\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:12:09","slug":"slovakia-will-block-eu-sanctions-on-russia-that-hurt-bratislavas-interests-fico-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/168439\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia will block EU sanctions on Russia that hurt Bratislava\u2019s interests, Fico says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia will block any European Union sanctions against Russia that damage the country&#8217;s interests, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks come after the Slovak parliament on Thursday approved a resolution calling on the government in Bratislava not to vote in favor of new EU sanctions on Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is a sanction that would harm us, I will never vote for it,&#8221; Fico <a href=\"https:\/\/hnonline.sk\/finweb\/ekonomika\/96216566-slovensko-bude-podla-fica-nadalej-blokovat-len-tie-sankcie-ktore-skodia-krajine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> a televised news conference on Sunday. &#8220;I am interested in being a constructive player in the European Union, but not at the expense of the Slovak Republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovakia will block any European Union sanctions against Russia that damage the country&#8217;s interests, Prime Minister Robert Fico&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[473,52871,35,474,18421,7558,2597,6566,332,7339,2663,2558,657,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-168439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-economic-sanctions","10":"tag-energy","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-finance-and-banking","13":"tag-financial-services","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-robert-fico","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-russia-sanctions","18":"tag-sanctions","19":"tag-slovakia","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-vladimir-putin","22":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","23":"tag-war","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114649572555898988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168439","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=168439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}