The manager, favorable to Moscow, pushed Brussels to exert increased pressure on Ukraine with regard to the Russian energy supply.
A plane carrying Prime Minister Slovak Robert Fico to a meeting with senior EU officials in Brussels has been forced to turn around today, because difficulties in controlling air traffic have practically closed Belgian air space .
Skeyesthe country traffic control service provider, explained that its main computer system did not work as planned around 3 p.m. (central Europe time), the Belgian media reported, which led to a massive misappropriation of Flights to other countries using a rescue system.
Among these flights, a Slovak plane transported Robert Fico, who went to a meeting planned with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the energy commissioner, Dan Jørgensen.
Slovak Prime Minister, whose election at the end of 2023 gave birth to a favorable government in Moscow, strongly criticized Ukraine’s decision to end Russian energy exports to Europe.
After a meeting with Dan Jørgensen in December, he reaffirmed that he was ready to use sanctions to put pressure on kyiv so that it reopens the pipelines carrying the Russian supplies.
He complained that Slovakia was going to lose millions of euros in transit costs because of this policy, and even threatened to cut the electricity supply of Ukraine and to remove assistance to Ukrainian refugees to cause of this question.
Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister and ally of Robert Fico, told Brussels that a solution should be found if he wanted to consent to the renewal of the sanctions imposed by the EU on Russia following the massive invasion of the ‘Ukraine, which has been going on for almost three years.
