SlovakNEWS<p>Fico Never Lets You Down<br>----------------------------------<br>Twenty six out of 27 EU leaders, including Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, approved a joint statement on Europe’s rearmament and continued aid to Ukraine amid the ongoing Russian invasion.<br>Despite flexing muscles at home for weeks ahead of the emergency summit, the pro-Putin Slovak PM did not vote against the summit conclusions, leaving only his equally confused friend, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, to play the role of the bad boy/useful idiot. Before leaving for Brussels, Fico, long blaming Ukraine for cutting off Russian gas transit through its territory, allegedly causing massive financial losses to Slovakia, told Slovak MPs on the parliamentary EU affairs committee that he would veto the conclusions unless they included guarantees for the resumption of Russian gas transit. <br>1/2</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SlovakNEWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlovakNEWS</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/opinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opinion</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Slovakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slovakia</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/OpEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpEd</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GasTransit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GasTransit</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Fico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fico</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/EmergencySummit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EmergencySummit</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/UsefulIdiots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UsefulIdiots</span></a> </p><p>Text on photo: <br>WE’RE GOING TO FIGHT! “Member states have recognised that the cancellation of transit through Ukraine is a problem that threatens the entire EU.”</p>