Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala on Monday He rejected the call of the Prime Minister of the Slovak Government Robert Fico to restore the joint negotiations of the Czech and Slovak cabinets. According to him, the current cooperation at the level of ministers is sufficient. This is reported by TASR based on the CT24 report. Fiala at the same time refused claiming to interfere with internal affairs Slovakia by calling on the non -blocking of the 18th Pack of Sancts of the European Union against Russia.
Slovak Prime Minister on Monday’s letter He asked a Czech colleague to respect the “Slovak national-state interest” in an effort to obtain a guarantee of plenty of natural gas at reasonable prices after 2028. At the same time he suggested what The earliest joint meeting of the Slovak and Czech government.
“Proposal 18. The penalty package was connected with the European Commission’s proposal to stop from 1 January 2028 any supply of Russian gas and We ask the relevant players to provide the necessary guarantees, that after January 1, 2028, Slovakia will have enough gas at reasonable prices. This is a Slovak national-state interest. I ask you to respect him, ”Fico wrote in a letter.
He also pointed out that, like Fiala, he is an opinion on the close relationship of the Slovak and Czech Republic. “The best response to unnecessary nervousness in international space would be Joint meeting of the Government of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic, to which I invite you to the territory of the Slovak Republic as soon as possible, ”added Fico. The Czech Republic announced in March last year that it postponed Czech-Slovak intergovernmental consultations in response to the foreign policy of the Slovak Republic.