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If the member states are stripped of their right to veto, it would be the beginning of the end of the European Union, said the Slovakian head of government. “Then it is the dictate of the big in relation to the small,” emphasized the Slovak Prime Minister.
Fico and Orbán also agreed that there is no military solution to the conflict in Ukraine. “The strategy currently being pursued towards Ukraine is not working,” emphasized the Slovakian head of government. Fico stated that as a Slav he was sorry that Slavs in Ukraine were being killed for geopolitical interests. “They hoped that if they gave them billions and weapons, Ukraine would bring them a wounded Russian bear on a platter.” “It’s not working,” Fico added.
Orbán emphasized that Hungary did not want to link the issue of aid to Ukraine with the revision of the EU budget. “We would be happy if Ukraine were granted financial aid outside the EU budget. If the others do not agree, I will be forced to stop this process,” Orbán said.
Orbán would be willing to help Ukraine if it were paid out in annual installments
“An advance payment of 50 billion euros from the Union budget for four years means a violation of the economic principles of the European Union.” “We have no idea what will happen in four years,” emphasized Orbán.
V4 was intentionally disabled
The Slovakian leader said that the Visegrad Four were deliberately deactivated because the four countries, representing 65 million inhabitants, can enforce things that individual countries cannot individually. “I will put pressure on the Czech Prime Minister to call a meeting of the Visegrad Group Prime Ministers as soon as possible,” Fico emphasized.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán at a press conference in Budapest
The Slovakian head of government defended Hungary in relation to criticism from the European Union. “I will never agree that a country is punished for fighting for its sovereignty and nation-state interests,” Fico said. According to the Slovakian head of government, it is not right for someone who expresses a different opinion and does not respect the only binding opinion to be immediately excluded from good society and labeled as an extremist and an atypical politician.
President Katalin Novaková also received Fic in Budapest. “It is good for us Hungarians and for Central Europe that Slovakia has a prime minister who speaks together with us to strengthen Visegrad cooperation,” Nováková said on the social network.
Hungarian map
In connection with the visit, the Blikk newspaper recalls that back in 2010, Fico described the granting of dual citizenship by Hungary to citizens of neighboring states with Hungarian citizenship as a “security risk” for Slovakia and supported the post-war decrees of President Edvard Beneš. which contain the collective guilt of Germans and Hungarians.
“Fico has often played the Hungarian card in the past. “If it wasn’t him, then it was his former ally Ján Slota,” the paper says. “It appears that Hungarian Prime Minister Fico has forgiven his previous anti-Hungarian rhetoric,” the newspaper added.
Blikk pointed out that fear of illegal migration played an important role in the recent Slovak elections. “It is interesting that after the elections, migrants disappeared from the Hungarian-Slovak border,” the newspaper emphasized.
Photo: Bernadett Szabo, Reuters
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico at a press conference
The European Union is ready to make concessions to Hungary to ensure aid to Kiev
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