Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico rejects media claims that his Paris talks with Emmanuel Macron signalled a foreign‑policy “U‑turn,” insisting he remains committed to a sovereign Slovak line “in all four directions” and that the meeting was about a broader “strategic awakening” of the EU, not a change of course by Bratislava. He says he was sharply critical of the European Commission’s plan to halt Russian gas imports, mocks the EU energy commissioner as incoherent and ineffective on prices, and calls for personnel change at the top of the Commission and in the EU’s foreign‑policy post, while vowing Slovakia will keep talking to all partners, from the U.S. and France to Russia, China and Cuba, without selling its independence.
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