Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has told European Council President António Costa that the European Union cannot place Ukraine's interests above those of Slovakia or Hungary. Source: Fico on X (Twitter),

The European Union said it will send financial aid and a team of experts to Ukraine with the aim of restoring the flow of oil from the Druzhba pipeline in a bid to lift Hungarian and Slovak obstacles to EU funds for Kyiv and further sanctions on Russia.

March 8 (Reuters) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday he would meet with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday, as Slovakia and Hungary ramp up pressure on Ukraine to restart Russian oil flows,

Slovakia’s government repealed a law abolishing the Whistleblower Protection Office after it said the European Union’s executive arm threatened to withhold funds tied to anti-corruption standards.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Azerbaijan, and three Central Asian republics are, via Slovakia, pushing to get Russian-Uzbek oligarch Alisher Usmanov removed from the European Union’s sanctions list ahead of a15 March roll-over of the bloc’s extensive blacklist.

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban talks with Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico before the round table session on the second of the European Council summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on March 22, 2024. (Nicolas Economou ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday praised Slovakia for "adherence" to its friendship with China, telling its prime minister that he hoped Bratislava would continue to aid Beijing in building its relations with the broader European ...