There is a strong assumption that fuel prices in Slovakia will rise. This was stated in connection with the situation in the Middle East in the STVR show O 5 minut 12 by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic and vice-chairman of the party Smer-SD Richard Takáč in a discussion with a member of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic and the chairman of the SaS opposition party Branislav Gröhling. According to Takač, the government will certainly react to the rise in gasoline and diesel prices, however, he did not specify the measures.
- Fuel prices in Slovakia and throughout the European Union will rise.
According to Takač, fuel prices in the EU will rise. “The situation from the point of view of fuel price increases throughout the EU will grow rapidly, the situation will worsen. So we (the government) will also have to take certain decisions that will be similar to those in other EU countries,” Takač explained.
“If the government wants to help in some way, the opposition already has a proposal in parliament to reduce consumption taxes, which would significantly affect the fact that fuel prices would go down.” responded to Takač Gröhling and at the same time called on the coalition to support the opposition’s proposal to reduce excise taxes on fuel. Takač countered that the reduction of consumption taxes would cause a shortfall in public finances.
Takáč informed that the German owner refused any discussion about the sale of the sugar factory Považský sukor. “They have decided that they are closing it, they don’t want to sell it, they are turning it into a kind of distribution warehouse, they are keeping the premises,” explained the Minister of Agriculture. According to Gröhling, companies are leaving Slovakia because of the unfavorable business environment created by the current government coalition. “These companies are leaving because of the policy of this government and what this government brings in the framework of individual laws. I have listed 13 of the companies that left Slovakia during the other period,” underlined the opposition member of the NR SR.
Takač recommended that Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) not go to Ukraine for negotiations. “From this point of view, I advise Mr. Prime Minister not to go to Kyiv under any circumstances. I do not recommend entering Ukraine with one foot, because after President Zelensky threatens Mr. Orbánis a big assumption, I am personally convinced that there are people in Ukraine who are capable of shooting the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic only because he has a sovereign position, a different opinion than Mr. Zelenský wishes,” added Takáč.
According to Gröhling, the Ukrainian president could have formulated his statements to the Hungarian prime minister in a different way. “In this case, I will be critical that it should not have been communicated this way,” Groehling said. According to him, the Ukrainian president should have refrained from such statements.
Gröhling emphasized that after the congress, the former chairman of the SaS, Richard Sulík, will not run for office in the next elections, and Jana Bittó Cigániková will end her leadership of the party. “And I will no longer even allow us to talk about whether Richard Sulík will be there or not. Because it is my decision within the framework of the statutes that I may have. It is confirmed by the congress and I will not even consider that Sulík is somewhere in the executive, in a position in the government or similar other information that I have already heard spread,” added the SaS chairman.
