Fico ‘Not Interested’ in Russia Sanctions as Slovakia Maintains Veto on 19th Package

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is once again using his veto power to block a new round of European Union sanctions against Russia, placing next week’s summit of Heads of State and Government in a conflict scenario. The package in question, which points to Russian liquefied natural gas, oil infrastructure, the so-called “shadow float” and cryptocurrency platforms, had already reached an advanced degree of technical consensus in previous work. …

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Slovakia and Austria have remained the last obstacles to an agreement on a new wave of European sanctions against Russia. The Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico again called for veto law to block the adoption of measures, preparing the ground...

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico claimed that there was nothing in the new sanctions package being prepared by the European Union against Russia, which is waging war in Ukraine, that would interest Slovakia. But yesterday, on the contrary, he came up with his own conditions. A few days earlier, another state appeared to have set its own conditions: Austria.