{"id":54358,"date":"2025-06-02T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/slovakia-opposes-eu-s-plan-to-end-russian-energy-imports-pm\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:43:23","slug":"slovakia-opposes-eu-s-plan-to-end-russian-energy-imports-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/slovakia-opposes-eu-s-plan-to-end-russian-energy-imports-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia opposes EU&#8217;s plan to end Russian energy imports: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addressing a press conference, Fico said the plan would threaten the operation of nuclear power plants in Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission last month unveiled a new roadmap to end EU&#8217;s reliance on Russian energy. The REPowerEU Roadmap sets out a phased and coordinated plan to halt imports of Russian natural gas, oil, and nuclear materials across the 27-member bloc, according to the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve repeatedly declared this idea of the European Commission to be harmful, ideological and damaging to the competitiveness of the European Union,&#8221; said Fico, adding that Slovakia will intervene in the EU to fight for its national interests in the preparation of legislative changes concerning oil, gas and nuclear fuel.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 2025, Slovakia has five nuclear reactors generating half of its electricity, according to the World Nuclear Association.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-88507\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/as-34.jpg\" alt=\"Slovakia&#039;s Prime Minister Robert Fico attends his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union&#039;s victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II. (PHOTO \/ POOL VIA AP)\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday that his government cannot support the European Union&#8217;s (EU) proposal to completely halt nuclear fuel imports from Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000088506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000088506,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-9.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-9.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/as-9.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000088506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54358"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54358"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}