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Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic: If the EU does not respect sovereign policy and traditions, it will “perish”

by AI | 11.Dec 2025 | Europe in brief AI

The Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico warned in the Slovak parliament that if the EU does not respect sovereign policy and traditions, it will cease to exist.

Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico sent a message that if the EU does not respect traditions, it will perish. PHOTO: TASR

Bratislava – If the European Union (EU) does not respect sovereign politics, traditions and historical roots, it will “perish.” This was declared by the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Robert Fico (Smer-SD) in the plenary of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic during Thursday’s Question Time. He said this in response to a question about how he evaluates the new national security strategy of the United States of America. According to Fico, the document says that the EU is abandoning its fundamental values and leadership. Fico agrees with this position, TASR reports.

“Can we be angry at the Vice President of the USA, who said that the EU is absolutely abandoning its traditions? We cannot, he is absolutely right. If the EU continues like this and does not respect sovereign politics, traditions, historical roots, then it will perish. And if it is to perish, let it perish,” declared Robert Fico.

According to him, Slovakia will stand by its positions, traditions, and by the fact that “one and one are two,” by which he alluded to the amendment to the Constitution of the Slovak Republic, which enshrined the existence of two sexes in the highest law of the state. In this context, he said that because of this constitutional amendment Smer-SD had, in his view, a dispute with the Party of European Socialists (PES).

According to Fico, the new US security strategy is about values. “It is an absolutely new view of the United States on Europe and the European Union. This document again states that the European Union is abandoning its fundamental values, has no leadership and the EU is losing its position on the international stage,” said the Prime Minister, adding that this is an opinion that “we have long preferred.”

According to him, the EU does not have real leadership as it did in the past and is losing its positions also within the whole world. (11 December)

“If the EU continues like this and does not respect sovereign politics, traditions, historical roots, then it will perish. And if it is to perish, let it perish.” Robert Fico.