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Fico: The Slovak government will consider the possibility of suing the EU for halting Russian gas

by AI | 19.Nov 2025 | Europe in brief AI

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that his government is considering the possibility of a lawsuit against the European Commission due to the halt of Russian gas supplies.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico hinted at the possibility that his government will sue the European Commission. PHOTO: TASR

Bratislava – The Slovak government will address the possibility of suing the European Union (EU) for its decision to end supplies of Russian gas by 2028 at its next meeting. This was stated by Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) after Wednesday’s government session. TASR reports on this.

The Prime Minister tasked Minister of Economy Denisa Saková (Hlas-SD), Minister of Foreign Affairs Juraj Blanár, and Minister of Justice Boris Susko (both Smer-SD) to present a document at the next government meeting that will analyze the possibility of filing such a lawsuit.

Robert Fico reminded that Slovakia is a country that, along with Hungary, will be the most affected by the decision of the European Commission.

“This decision severely harms us. You know that we did not vote for it,” he emphasized. According to the Prime Minister, the government will also address the commitments of the European Commission that are supposed to help Slovakia with energy. “Everything will depend on how the European Commission fulfills its commitments to Slovakia, which were given and signed directly by the President of the European Commission,” Fico added.

The EU made the decision to cut off Russian energy supplies with a qualified majority of member states, which the Prime Minister claims is a violation of EU legislation. The EU’s RePower initiative also concerns oil supplies in addition to natural gas.

Another point of discussion at the government’s off-site meeting next Wednesday (November 26) should be, according to the Prime Minister, the issue of using frozen Russian assets in the EU to finance Ukraine. “We are talking about 140 billion euros that the Euro Commission literally wants to give to Ukraine, which raises a huge number of legal questions, a European amount of uncertainty,” Fico warned. The confiscation of these frozen Russian assets could, according to him, practically mean the confiscation of property of EU member states on the territory of the Russian Federation and also hundreds of arbitration proceedings.

“Therefore, I also want to ask both the European Commission and everyone else to be as legally and politically restrained as possible,” the Prime Minister added. (November 19)

“Everything will depend on how the European Commission fulfills its commitments to Slovakia.” Robert Fico