The no-confidence vote, if it succeeds, will trigger a snap election. According to a recent January poll, the liberal opposition Progressive Slovakia is the most popular party in the country on 23.9 percent support, with Fico’s ruling Smer in second on 18 percent.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico discussed the potential for securing Russian gas through Turkey with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who pledged Ankara’s help in finding a solution with Moscow.

Fico is really afraid now that his popularity will start to fall. He was afraid that the opposition would talk about his political steps for a long time and in detail, giving some examples. And in this regard, the opposition is much better prepared rhetorically, they have good opposition speakers, with whom Fico can not even compare.

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BRATISLAVA - Slovakia's opposition accused Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday of laying the groundwork to take the country out of the European Union, but dropped its no-confidence motion to dismiss him and his leftist-nationalist government.

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.

Andrej Danko, co-leader of the delegation, claimed that Warsaw refused to allow their flight to enter Polish airspace and the plane had to be rerouted via Czechia and Germany.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to visit Ukraine's capital Kyiv this Friday, responding to his offer of talks to try to resolve a spat over the end of Russian gas deliveries.

Russia has given its first response to Donald Trump’s ultimatum calling on Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks or see his Ukraine invasion end “the hard way”.Writing on his Truth Social platform days after re-entering the White House,

Slovak opposition leader Michal Simecka accused Prime Minister Robert Fico of laying the ground to take the country out of the European Union as he launched an attempt to dismiss the leftist-nationalist government in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday.

The European Union’s decision to wean itself off Russian energy has led to soaring energy costs across the continent, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen revealed during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 21.