Prime Minister Robert Fico says the bloc abused its power by seeking to force the country to stop buying energy from Moscow<\/p>\n
Slovakia will file a lawsuit with the EU\u2019s Court of Justice challenging the bloc\u2019s decision to ban imports of Russian gas, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said.
\nIn January, the EU formally approved a plan to phase out supplies of Russian pipeline gas by 2027, overriding vetoes from Slovakia and Hungary.
\n\u201cWe object that where it was not possible to use a qualified majority, it was used, and that the right of a sovereign EU member state to veto something was circumvented,\u201d Fico said at a press conference on Friday, as quoted by TASR.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAccording to the Slovak government, this is a clear violation of all the principles on which the EU treaties are based,\u201d he added.
\nJustice Minister Boris Susko said the lawsuit would be filed next week, while Fico stated that Slovakia would seek an injunction suspending the regulation.
\nHungary, whose outgoing prime minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n argued that the EU has \u201cshot itself in the lungs\u201d by imposing sanctions on Russia in response to the Ukraine conflict, filed a similar lawsuit in February. Fico has also strongly criticized what he described as \u201csuicidal\u201d sanctions and urged the bloc to engage diplomatically with Moscow.
\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the bloc should use \u201cthe momentum\u201d from Orban\u2019s election loss last week to further restrict member states\u2019 veto powers, preventing them from blocking loans to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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