Prague, May 7 (EFE) .- The Prime Minister of Slovakia, populist Robert Fico, described Wednesday as “absolutely unacceptable” and “economic suicide” the European Commission’s proposal to completely eliminate Russian gas imports before the end of 2027.
“They have given us a road map to end the importation of Russian energy, something absolutely unacceptable for the Government of the Slovak Republic,” said Fico during an institutional statement, in which he described the proposal of Brussels as “ideological decision, which has nothing to do with common sense.”
Fico said that it considers it acceptable to reduce the energy dependence of third countries, outside the EU, “but completely cutting the imports of gas, oil or nuclear fuel in Russia is a red line.”
Slovakia will be one of the countries most affected by Brussels’s proposal, which wants to sanction Russia for the Ukraine War, but with that measure “substantially the competitiveness of the EU and Slovakia is damaged,” added the left -wing populist politician.
So much that, ending Russian energy imports, the Slovak leader called him an “economic suicide.”
“I fear that we will adopt legislation at the EU level that will become a mere political tool, with fundamental and unpredictable consequences,” said Fico, whose executive will wait to know the final text of the legislative proposal promoted by the president of the European Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen.
Fico, who in the next few hours plans to travel to Moscow for the parade that commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, will be the only EU president who will attend the celebration and maintain bilateral meetings with the host, President Vladimír Putin, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ Lula ‘
