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Palm Beach/Bratislava – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) met for work on Sunday with American President Donald Trump at his residence Mar-a-Lago in the city of Palm Beach in Florida. During the meeting they touched on several topics including the war in Ukraine, developments in the European Union and mutual bilateral relations. TASR was informed of this by the Press and Information Department of the Office of the Government of the Slovak Republic.
According to the Slovak prime minister, the visit took place in an informal spirit, which he described as a sign of respect and trust. Also present at the meeting were the foreign ministers of the USA and Slovakia, Marco Rubio and Juraj Blanár (Smer-SD).
According to the prime minister, he and Donald Trump agreed in their views on the European Union as an “institution in deep crisis.” He added that together they assessed the competitiveness and the energy and migration policy of the euro bloc.
Their joint discussions also did not avoid the topic of Ukraine, where Robert Fico repeated that he had conveyed to the American president his positions so far, which have not changed.
“All my positions are sufficiently well known and I repeat them in the same wording at every meeting,” he stated. In the context of other sensitive international events, Fico declared “the Slovak peaceful stance and the view that diplomacy and mutual listening must take precedence over military solutions.”
Fico and Trump also discussed the intergovernmental agreement between the governments of the Slovak Republic and the USA on cooperation in the field of civil nuclear energy, which was ceremonially signed in Washington on Saturday (January 17), before the meeting in Florida. “Both countries are fully aware that it is not possible to solve serious energy challenges through wind turbines or photovoltaics, but that the basis for the future is the rapid development of nuclear energy,” Fico stated in this context. (January 18)