The European Union is not capable of coming up with a peace initiative for Ukraine, all meetings of statesmen of EU member states are war cabinets, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday. At the conference on the twentieth anniversary of Slovakia’s accession to the EU, the prime minister of Slovakia also criticized the foreign policy of the union and rejected its new migration pact.
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11:02 a.m May 2, 2024
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The summits of the European Council are war cabinets, says Fico (illustrative photo) | Photo: Johanna Geron | Source: Reuters
“We pretend to be the best and wisest in the world and we are unable to come up with a peace initiative for Ukraine. All meetings of the European Council are war cabinets. Arms, arms, arms and arms, no word of peace when it comes to the European Council meeting. I am very sorry for that, because peace should be at the top of the European agenda,” said Fico. He added that the European Union was created as a peace project and not as a war project.
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After taking office last year, the current government of Fico stopped military aid to Ukraine from the state reserves. Fico has also previously claimed that the strategy of Western countries regarding the war in Ukraine has failed.
“The European Union is at a loss when it comes to foreign policy and we often just look helplessly at our ally across the Atlantic to see what he will say and what he will do,” Fico said.
Fico said that Slovakia values membership of the European Union, but continues to confront him with how Bratislava views major issues of foreign policy or EU policy. The Slovak prime minister also warned the EU not to selectively use mechanisms to protect the rule of law just because his country is “sovereign”.
Migration Pact
The European Commission and Bratislava are exchanging views on the extensive changes in criminal law that Fico’s government pushed through in the Slovak parliament this year. Vice-President of the European Commission Věra Jourová said during her visit to Slovakia last week that no one wants Slovakia to lose money from European funds. But at the same time, according to her, the commission wants to have guarantees of protection against misuse of EU money.
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In a speech at the conference, Fico rejected the new EU migration pact. “We also voted against or abstained from voting on this package of migration regulations, and there will be a problem with implementation in Slovakia. We will wait to see how the situation regarding the elections to the European Parliament develops and perhaps we will have hope that the European Parliament will return to this package of migration regulations,” he said.
According to Fico, member states cannot be forced to either take in migrants or pay 20,000 euros (roughly half a million crowns) for each of them.
Using the example of the approval of the new EU migration pact, which did not require the unanimous consent of the EU member states, Fico defended the preservation of the right of veto in matters of the Union’s foreign policy, budget and security.
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