The Foreign Policy of the Slovak Republic consists of the President and the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, others only comment on it. This was declared by President Peter Pellegrini in connection with the statements of several coalition politicians that he thinks They unnecessarily overwhelm public space and arouse uncertainty among Slovaks. He added that NATO may be undergoing qualitative changes and the EU is standing at the crossroads than to be more efficient but Slovakia from membership in these two organizations no one wants to divert. The words of MEP Erik Kaliňák (Smer-SD) are not taken by the President “seriously”.
The President thinks that some coalition officials do not help Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD), by their actions and words, who is trying to convince the public that there is no reason to demonstrate because no one wants to divert Slovakia from NATO and the EU. However, he does not perceive statements dramatically, because it is important for him how the prime minister behaves at European meetings and he as the head of state at NATO Summities. “We make foreign policy, others just comment on it,” he added.
The words of Kalinak that if the Russians got to Uz Uzhgorod, Ukraine, Slovakia would finally have a reliable partner, Pellegrini does not take “seriously” at all. He sees him as a young and very inexperienced politician. “I do not think that this young man, who is very short in politics, has and is able to analyze the situation in the world to tell his opinions. And when he tells them, it does not need to be taken seriously and relevant at all, because he still has the time for the highest constitutional officials to deal with his statements,” He said that MEP Kalinak is trying to attract.
According to the President, the Prime Minister was very correct and concrete at the parliamentary euro session. He thinks that his hard attitude will be able to assert to the EU’s conclusions that the EU, Ukraine and Slovakia must make every effort in the discussion of returning the possibility of gas transit for Slovakia through the Ukrainian pipeline. “This is a legitimate attitude of the Slovak Republic,” he said.
