Fico called on the EU to convene an extraordinary summit due to rising fuel prices
The Prime Minister of Slovakia criticized the European Union for ignoring the fuel crisis and supporting Ukraine
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced a sharp rise in fuel prices in Europe and called on the EU to convene an extraordinary summit, accusing the union's leadership of ignoring the crisis and being overly focused on helping Ukraine.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has repeatedly criticized the EU's large-scale support for Ukraine.
BRATISLAVA, September 23 - RIA Novosti. Fuel prices in Europe are rising, while the European Union is always focused only on Ukraine, said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
“I am writing an open letter to the President of the European Commission (Ursula von der Leyen - ed.), I will also appeal to the President of the European Council (António Costa - ed.) so that he convenes an extraordinary summit, because since there are countries where the price of one liter of diesel fuel is approaching three euros, then this is a crisis that has not happened here for a long time, and we are always dealing with Ukraine,” Fico said at a press conference on the results of the meeting of the government of Slovakia, which was broadcast by the Slovak TV channel TA3 on Wednesday.
“It’s always the same thing: Ukraine, hundreds of billions of euros for Ukraine,” he added.
Fico said the European Union could find hundreds of billions of euros to support the war in Ukraine, but cannot even hold a meeting due to high fuel prices, not to mention the fact that the EU expects member states to accept various compensations that should help citizens deal with this enormous pressure on their wallets.
“I consider it absolute cynicism on the part of the European Union to leave member states in an oil crisis to their fate,” Fico concluded.
On Tuesday, Fico called on the European Union to convene an extraordinary summit due to the rise in fuel prices that has been observed in Europe recently.
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Address to the President of the European Council on convening a summit
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- Will the European Council convene an extraordinary summit?
- What measures will the EU leadership take in response to Fico's call?
