{"id":258853,"date":"2025-07-12T11:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258853\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T11:58:15","slug":"slovakias-fico-eyes-deal-tuesday-on-eus-russian-gas-ban-and-sanctions-package-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/258853\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia\u2019s Fico eyes deal Tuesday on EU\u2019s Russian gas ban and sanctions package \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia could back a new EU sanctions package against Russia on Tuesday, Prime Minister Robert Fico said, as long as it first reaches a deal with European partners to cushion the effect of a proposed ban on Russian gas entering the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia has blocked the sanctions package over Bratislava&#8217;s concerns that a European Commission proposal to end Russian gas imports from 2028 could damage the country&#8217;s economic interests. Slovakia gets the majority of its gas from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to win something in this fight, though it will not be a 100-0 result,&#8221; Fico told reporters in the Slovak capital on Saturday, according to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/slovakia-aims-agreement-by-tuesday-end-russian-gas-supplies-sanctions-2025-07-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters report<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;We want political commitments, guarantees from partners and the Commission that this problem will not remain only on Slovakia&#8217;s back,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovakia could back a new EU sanctions package against Russia on Tuesday, Prime Minister Robert Fico said, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3427,35,2000,299,5187,5435,1824,475,806,770,6566,332,2663,2558],"class_list":{"0":"post-258853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-gas","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-imports","16":"tag-industry","17":"tag-poland","18":"tag-robert-fico","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-sanctions","21":"tag-slovakia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114840148836571183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258853","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=258853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}