Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala He appreciated that Slovakia stopped blocking 18 sanctions against Russia and the EU could have accepted it on Friday. He described this as another important step in the joint pressure on the Kremlin to stop aggression against Ukraine. Fiala wrote it on Friday on the social network X, reports TASR newsletter in Prague.
“I appreciate that the European Union has already approved the eighteenth and the toughest package of sanctions against Russia … Sanctions are working, weakening the Russian economy and limiting Russia’s ability to finance the war. Written by Fiala.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský pointed out that the Czech Republic in the latest penalty package has enforced the possibility to require an exporter to obtain an export permit in case of suspicion that goods can end up through third countries in Russia – Although it does not even have to be the goods of double use. “This is closing the re -export’s back door,” Lipavský stressed.
18. The set of sanctions against Russia, approved by the EU EU -based EU states on Friday morning, is, according to EU diplomacy chief Kaji Kallas, one of the hardest to date. According to Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia vetoed him six times.
It changed its attitude on Friday because, according to Fico, the written liabilities of the EC are signed by its chairman Ursulu von Der Leyen and the College of Commissioners concerning the plan to stop Russian gas supply to the EU since 2028. It was by guarantees from the EC on energy raw materials that Slovakia made its consent to the 18th penalty package.
