If the EC does not provide Slovakia with a solution, Fico will not support the package of anti -Russian sanctions

BRATISLAVA. The Slovak Republic will not support the upcoming 18. The penalty package against the Russian Federation, unless its European Commission (EC) provides a real solution to the crisis situation in which Slovakia will reach the supply of gas, oil and nuclear fuel supplies completely Russia.

Prime Minister Robert Fico (Direction) informed about it on the social network.

The European Commission on Tuesday presented 18. The package of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

It is intended to affect Russia’s revenue from energy and military industry. In the new package, it is proposed to reduce the price ceiling to Russian oil and disable trading with the Nord Stream 1 and 2 AS gas pipelines involved in the circumvention of sanctions.

« Russia’s aim is not peace, but the establishment of the government of power … power is the only language that Russia understands, » said the EC chairman Ursula von der leyen at a press conference.

The European Commission has proposed to be the price ceiling of the G7 countries to the purchase of the purchase Russian oil reduced from the current $ 60 to $ 45 a barrel in an effort to limit Russia’s revenue from energy. In addition, 22 banks could also be cut from the international Swift payment system.

In the order of 18, the package of anti -Russian sanctions also envisages the imposition of restrictions on other vessels, which, according to Brussels, belong to the so -called. Russian shadow fleet of tankers. The Moscow is allegedly used to circumvent sanctions imposed for oil exports or otherwise participate in the support of the Russian energy sector.

As for the gas pipelines connecting Germany and Russia in the Baltic Sea, Nord Stream 1 has become unusable after a series of underwater explosions to which no one has yet signed up. Nord Stream 2 has never received operating license. Russia, however, showed interest in reviving these projects, wrote the British newspaper The Guardian.

Last Thursday Parliament unexpectedly approved the resolution from four deputies SNSthat they want to oblige members of the government not to vote more in Brussels at meetings of 27 EU countries for further anti -Russian sanctions.

Not even coalition deputies Direction And the voice who assumed that the proposal would not pass could not immediately after the vote surprise to answer the question whether the Prime Minister would have to follow a resolution adopted by Parliament.

Prime Minister Robert Fico has not yet blocked any of the sanction packages against Russia in Brussels. This is despite his repeated statements that sanctions do not harm and do not work and only harm the European Union.