斯洛伐克议会确认政府承诺停止对乌克兰的军事援助
路透社 2023 年 11 月 21 日
斯洛伐克新任命的总理罗伯特·菲科于 2023 年 10 月 25 日在斯洛伐克布拉迪斯拉发总统府出席新内阁就职典礼。 REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/档案照片获取许可权
路透11月21日 - 斯洛伐克议会周二确认了总理罗伯特·菲科的政府，支持一项政策议程，承诺停止对乌克兰的国家军事援助、缓慢减少预算赤字并征收新的银行税。
菲科在 9 月份的一场针对批评媒体、西方合作伙伴和自由主义政策的竞选活动中获胜，并于 10 月 25 日被总统祖扎纳·卡普托娃第四次任命为总理。
菲科的执政联盟由他的左翼社会保守党 SMER-SSD 与一个规模较小的左翼政党和一个小型民族主义政党组成。
该联盟上周通过了其政策计划，议会在周二的信任投票中予以支持。
该计划承诺对银行利润征收特别税，并采取措施降低抵押贷款利率。 将对其他未指定行业的超额利润征收特别税。
它的目标是到2024年将一般政府赤字减少至GDP的0.5%。该国今年面临着欧元区最大的赤字，估计接近GDP的7%。
该计划还纳入了菲科的竞选承诺，即在邻国与俄罗斯的入侵作斗争时停止斯洛伐克对乌克兰的官方军事援助，并寻求停止敌对行动，同时承认乌克兰的国际边界。
它还重申反对终止欧盟成员国的国家否决权，或在更多领域实行多数投票。
反对派投票反对该计划，理由是菲科攻击独立媒体，并解雇了调查新执政联盟成员腐败行为的高级警察官员。
斯洛伐克总理谴责西方对乌克兰的战略，称俄罗斯“也需要安全保障”
https://news.yahoo.com/slovak-pm-decries-western-strategy-165839718.html#:~:text=
马丁·福努塞克 一月 10, 2024
斯洛伐克总理罗伯特·菲科在《真理报》1月9日发表的专栏中广泛批评了西方对俄罗斯-乌克兰战争的态度。
菲科于9月份在民粹主义、对乌克兰持怀疑态度的政纲下当选，他停止了斯洛伐克军事库存的武器供应，并多次批评对乌克兰的国防援助和对俄罗斯的制裁。
斯洛伐克政府首脑也被认为与匈牙利总理欧尔班维克托关系密切，而后者又被广泛视为欧盟中最接近克里姆林宫的领导人。
菲科在专栏中声称，西方战略“失败了”，没有成功摧毁俄罗斯经济，莫斯科继续控制乌克兰部分领土。
菲科承认俄罗斯在 2022 年发动全面入侵违反了国际法，但他拒绝接受他所说的关于这场战争的“非黑即白的观点”。
菲科写道：“这场战争的根源在于2014年，乌克兰的政治局势与其俄罗斯籍公民有关。”
2014年，克里姆林宫利用歧视乌克兰俄语人口的虚假指控占领克里米亚，并在顿涅茨克州和卢甘斯克州发动战争。
另请阅读：乌克兰周边民粹主义的兴起：并不像你想象的那么悲观
斯洛伐克总理再次批评西方对基辅的军事援助，声称“乌克兰无法进行有意义的反攻，因为它完全依赖西方的财政援助”。
菲科呼吁稳定欧盟与俄罗斯之间的关系，并补充说莫斯科“也需要其安全保障”。
虽然文章中间接攻击了欧盟向乌克兰提供 550 亿美元资金的讨论，但欧洲官员表示，菲科在 12 月峰会期间并不反对这笔援助。
多位专家指出，尽管言辞激烈，菲柯在实际行动上不太可能直接反对西方共识。 由于匈牙利的唯一反对，欧盟的援助仍然停滞不前。
菲科还写道，如果基辅满足所有入盟标准，他不反对乌克兰加入欧盟。
在最近对西方团结的另一次攻击中，布拉迪斯拉发没有与近 50 个国家一起谴责朝鲜向乌克兰部署弹道导弹的报道。
斯洛伐克外交部长尤拉伊·布拉纳尔表示，在收到相关证据后，他准备谴责俄罗斯与朝鲜之间的军事协议。
北约国家领导人称西方“一再”误判乌克兰战争
2024 年 1 月 10 日 作者：凯特琳·刘易斯
https://www.newsweek.com/nato-country-leader-says-west-has-repeatedly-misjudged-war-ukraine-1859685#:~:text=
斯洛伐克总理罗伯特·菲科表示，西方领导人在评估俄罗斯和乌克兰之间的战争时“一再犯错误”，他在最近的一篇评论文章中写道，基辅尽管获得了数十亿美元的军事援助，但无法发动任何有意义的反攻。
斯洛伐克左翼Smer党成员菲科周二在斯洛伐克《真理报》发表的一篇专栏文章中批评了其他北约国家，他写道，西方针对俄罗斯侵略的“失败战略”正在“开始造成皱纹” 在我的额头上。” 他还写到拒绝“华盛顿或布鲁塞尔所希望的”战争的“非黑即白的愿景”，并将莫斯科的入侵归咎于美国从2014年开始对基辅政府的影响。
菲科写道：“俄罗斯违反国际法，在未经国际授权的情况下使用军事力量，以应对安全局势和乌克兰加入北约的压力。” “大国经常这样做，让我们看看美国在伊拉克取得了什么成就。”
斯洛伐克领导人：西方“一再”误判战争
斯洛伐克总理罗伯特·菲科于 2023 年 12 月 13 日在比利时布鲁塞尔拍摄。菲科在最近的一篇专栏文章中写道，西方在俄罗斯-乌克兰战争中的“失败战略”“开始让我额头上出现皱纹”。 KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/法新社 图片来源：GETTY IMAGES
他补充道：“西方并没有在 2022 年初立即尽一切努力实现快速停火，甚至没有输给乌克兰十分之一，而是犯了一个巨大的错误。” “[西方]错误地将使用俄罗斯军事力量视为让俄罗斯屈服的机会。”
在十月份第四次被任命为斯洛伐克总理之前，菲科在竞选时承诺结束斯洛伐克对乌克兰的军事支持，并多次批评西方对俄罗斯的广泛制裁。 尽管自战争爆发以来布拉迪斯拉发坚定不移地支持基辅，但斯洛伐克政府在 11 月拒绝了菲科领导下向乌克兰提供的 4300 万美元的援助计划，这可能标志着该国的转变。
菲科在专栏中写道，他对自己的国家成为俄罗斯的“死敌”感到“不高兴”，并表示尽管遭到大规模制裁，俄罗斯的军事和经济仍继续生存。
“事实是无情的，”菲科写道。 “俄罗斯在军事上完全控制了被占领土，并试图用煽动性手段让国际社会相信俄罗斯士兵士气低落和巨大的人员伤亡，这越来越表明自己是空洞的煽动性的一厢情愿。”
这位斯洛伐克领导人还预测，西方对乌克兰的持续军事援助将“无济于事”，并补充说，其影响将使欧盟“可能减少500亿欧元……”，而乌克兰的墓地“将因数千人死亡而更加拥挤”。 士兵。”
菲科继续说道：“不幸的是，常识不会获胜，尽管我们都被命令立即宣布休战并坐在谈判桌上。” “显然，人力资源和金钱的徒劳浪费以及时间的流逝不会使俄罗斯的谈判地位恶化，相反，它会加强它，因为几年后国际社会也将开始组织撤退，当 看看现实。”
《新闻周刊》周三通过电子邮件联系了乌克兰外交部和美国国务院征求评论。
斯洛伐克总理：俄罗斯需要安全保障，乌克兰无力发起新的反攻
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/10/7436645/?
乌克兰真理报 2024 年 1 月 10 日
斯洛伐克总理罗伯特·菲科批评西方对俄罗斯对乌战争的战略，称侵略国本身需要安全保障，而乌克兰没有能力进行全面反攻。
资料来源：Fico，欧洲真理报在斯洛伐克报纸《真理报》的专栏中写道
引用：“俄罗斯为了应对安全局势和乌克兰加入北约的压力，违反了国际法，在没有国际授权的情况下使用武力。大国经常这样做。”
详细信息：菲科指出，自俄罗斯在乌克兰的战争开始以来，他拒绝了非黑即白的看法，并重复了俄罗斯宣传中关于“压迫说俄语的人”的陈词滥调，据称这些陈词滥调导致了 2014 年的战斗，并且美国 对基辅有全面的影响力。
在他看来，西方误判俄罗斯使用武力是让俄罗斯屈服的机会。
“西方将利用俄罗斯违反国际法的行为，向乌克兰提供大量武器、数十亿美元，对俄罗斯施加大规模制裁，攻击俄罗斯主要矿产资源，等到最后一刻，乌克兰士兵将带来 这位斯洛伐克总理写道，他是盘中的俄罗斯熊头，其形式是军事疲惫、经济崩溃、国际孤立、国内政治受损的俄罗斯。”他补充说，他不同意西方的这一战略。
他说，他不是那些对俄罗斯联邦成为斯洛伐克的死敌感到高兴的斯洛伐克政治家之一，他也不喜欢斯洛伐克因此被称为俄罗斯的敌国。
“看到西方在评估俄罗斯局势时一再犯错误，确实令人震惊。事实是无情的......乌克兰没有能力进行全面的军事反攻；它已经完全依赖西方的金融 援助在未来几年会给乌克兰人带来不可预测的后果，”菲科说。
然而，他预测武器和资金将在未来一段时间内继续流入乌克兰——“但无济于事”。
“显然，人力资源和金钱的浪费以及时间的流逝不会使俄罗斯的谈判地位恶化，反而会加强它，因为几年后，国际社会也将开始组织撤退，审视现实， ”菲科说道。
正如他所说，“所有人都非常清楚”，乌克兰危机没有军事解决方案。
菲科写道：“如果我希望有一件事的话，那就是斯拉夫人停止出于地缘政治原因相互争斗，无论是来自美国还是俄罗斯方面。”
斯洛伐克总理认为乌克兰有权走自己的主权道路，而不是欧盟规定的道路：“如果它认为自己属于欧盟，在满足条件的情况下就让它有这个机会。我们很乐意 帮助”。
同时他表示，俄罗斯也需要安全保障。
“我仍然认为，我们必须回到最近的欧洲言论，即欧盟和俄罗斯在某种程度上是相互联系的，并且它们彼此需要。作为斯洛伐克共和国总理，我不会向任何国家散布敌意 菲科表示：“我希望欧盟成员国与俄罗斯之间的关系能够逐步规范化。”
背景：
就任总理后，菲科确认不会像竞选期间所说的那样支持对乌克兰的军事援助。 他还反对欧盟对俄罗斯实施制裁，并希望阻止乌克兰加入北约。
菲科在会见俄罗斯大使后表示，斯洛伐克应为乌克兰战争结束后的时期以及斯洛伐克与俄罗斯关系正常化做好准备。
Slovak parliament confirms government promising to halt Ukraine military aid
Reuters November 21, 2023
Slovakia's newly appointed Prime Minister Robert Fico attends the new cabinet's inauguration, at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, October 25, 2023. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
Nov 21 (Reuters) - Slovakia's parliament confirmed Prime Minister Robert Fico's government on Tuesday, backing a policy agenda that promises to halt state military aid to Ukraine, slowly reduce budget deficits and impose a new bank tax.
Fico won an election in September on a campaign that took aim at critical media, Western partners and liberal policies, and was appointed prime minister for the fourth time by President Zuzana Caputova on Oct. 25.
Fico's governing coalition combines his leftist, socially conservative SMER-SSD party with a smaller leftist party and a small nationalist party.
The coalition adopted its policy programme last week, and parliament supported it in a vote of confidence on Tuesday.
The programme promises a special tax on banking profits and measures to cut interest rates on mortgages. Special levies will be designed for excessive profits in other unspecified sectors.
It aims for a reduction of the general government deficit amounting to 0.5% of GDP in 2024. The country is facing the euro zone's biggest deficit estimated at almost 7% of GDP this year.
The programme also incorporated Fico's campaign pledge to halt Slovakia's official military aid to Ukraine as its neighbour battles Russia's invasion and to seek a cessation of hostilities, while recognising Ukraine's international borders.
It also reiterated opposition to an end of national veto rights of European Union member states, or a move towards majority voting in more areas.
The opposition voted against the programme, citing Fico's attacks on independent media and dismissals of high police officials which had investigated members of the new ruling coalition for graft.
Reporting by Jason Hovet, editing by Jan Lopatka and Timothy Heritage
Slovak PM decries Western strategy on Ukraine, says Russia 'also needs security guarantees'
https://news.yahoo.com/slovak-pm-decries-western-strategy-165839718.html#:~:text=
Martin Fornusek
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico broadly criticized the West's approach toward the Russia-Ukraine war in a column for the Pravda newspaper published on Jan. 9.
Elected in September on a populist, Ukraine-skeptic platform, Fico halted arms supplies from Slovakia's military stocks and repeatedly criticized both defense assistance for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.
The Slovak head of government is also considered to be close to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is, in turn, broadly seen as the most Kremlin-proximate leader in the EU.
In his column, Fico claimed that the Western strategy has "failed," saying it did not succeed in collapsing the Russian economy and Moscow continues to control parts of Ukrainian territory.
While acknowledging that Russia broke international law by launching its full-scale invasion in 2022, Fico rejected what he called a "black-and-white perspective" on the war.
"The war has its roots in 2014 and Ukraine's political situation in relation to its citizens of Russian nationality," Fico wrote.
The Kremlin used false accusations of discrimination against the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine to occupy Crimea and initiate the war in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in 2014.
Read also: Rise of populism in Ukraine’s neighborhood: Not as gloomy as you think
The Slovak prime minister again criticized Western military assistance for Kyiv, claiming that "Ukraine is incapable of a meaningful counteroffensive, as it became fully dependent on financial assistance from the West."
Fico called for the stabilization of relations between the EU and Russia and added that Moscow "also needs its security guarantees."
While indirectly attacking the discussed $55 billion in EU funding for Ukraine in the article, European officials indicated that Fico did not oppose the assistance during a December summit.
Several experts pointed out that despite fiery rhetorics, Fico is unlikely to go in direct opposition to the Western consensus in practical steps. The EU aid remains stalled due to sole opposition from Hungary.
Fico also wrote he does not oppose Ukraine's membership in the EU if Kyiv meets all criteria for the accession.
In another recent jab at Western unity, Bratislava did not join the nearly 50 countries in denouncing the reported deployment of North Korean ballistic missiles against Ukraine.
Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar said he is ready to condemn military deals between Russia and North Korea after receiving relevant evidence.
NATO Country Leader Says the West Has 'Repeatedly' Misjudged War in Ukraine
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said that Western leaders have "repeatedly erred in assessing" the war between Russia and Ukraine, writing in a recent opinion piece that Kyiv is incapable of launching any meaningful counteroffensive despite receiving billions of dollars in military aid.
Fico, a member of the left-wing Smer party in Slovakia, criticized other NATO countries in an op-ed published by Slovak newspaper Pravda.sk on Tuesday, writing that the West's "failed strategy" against Russia's aggression is "beginning to cause wrinkles on my forehead." He also wrote about rejecting the "black-and-white vision" of the war that is "desired in Washington or Brussels," and blamed Moscow's invasion on the United States' influence on Kyiv's government, starting in 2014.
"Russia responded to the security situation and Ukraine's pressure to join NATO by violating international law, using military force without an international mandate," Fico wrote. "Big countries often do that, let's see what the US accomplished in Iraq."
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is pictured in Brussels, Belgium, on December 13, 2023. Fico wrote in a recent op-ed that the West's "failed strategy" in the Russia-Ukraine war is "beginning to cause wrinkles on my forehead."KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
"And the West, instead of immediately making every effort to achieve a quick ceasefire, at the beginning of 2022 without even losing a tenth to Ukraine, made a huge mistake," he added. "[The West] incorrectly evaluated the use of Russian military force as an opportunity to bring Russia to its knees."
Before being named Slovakia's prime minister for a fourth time in October, Fico campaigned on a promise to end his country's military support for Ukraine, and has repeatedly criticized the West's extensive sanctions on Russia. Despite Bratislava's unwavering support for Kyiv since the start of the war, Slovakia's government rejected a $43 million aid package to Ukraine in November under Fico's leadership, potentially signaling a shift in the country.
"The facts are inexorable," Fico wrote. "Russia completely controls the occupied territories militarily, and attempts to convince the international community with demagoguery about the demoralization of the Russian soldiers and the huge human losses are increasingly showing themselves as empty demagogic wishful thinking."
The Slovak leader also predicted that continued Western military aid to Ukraine will be "to no avail," adding that the impacts will leave the EU "perhaps 50 billion euros ... lighter" and that Ukraine's cemeteries "will be fuller by thousands of dead soldiers."
"Unfortunately, common sense will not win, although we are all ordered to immediately declare a truce and sit down at the negotiating table," Fico continued. "It is evident that the futile waste of human resources and money and the passage of time will not worsen Russia's negotiating position, on the contrary, it will strengthen it, because in a few years the international community will also begin to organize a retreat when looking at the reality."
Newsweek reached out to Ukraine's Foreign Ministry and the U.S. State Department via email for comment on Wednesday.
Slovak Prime Minister: Russia needs security guarantees, and Ukraine is incapable of new counter-offensive
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/10/7436645/?
Ukrainska Pravda
Robert Fico, Slovakia's Prime Minister, has criticised the West's strategy for Russia's war against Ukraine, saying that the aggressor country itself needs security guarantees and that Ukraine is incapable of a full-fledged counter-offensive.
Source: Fico, in a column for the Slovak newspaper Pravda, European Pravda writes
Quote: "Russia has responded to the security situation and Ukraine's pressure [on its way] to join NATO by violating international law by using military force without an international mandate. Big countries often do this."
Details: Fico noted that since the beginning of Russia's war in Ukraine, he has rejected a black-and-white vision and repeated Russian propaganda clichés about the "oppression of Russian speakers" that allegedly led to the battles in 2014 and that the United States had total influence over Kyiv.
In his opinion, the West misjudged the use of Russian military force as an opportunity to bring Russia to its knees.
"The West will take advantage of Russia's violation of international law, supply Ukraine with a lot of weapons, billions of dollars, burden Russia with massive sanctions, attack Russia's main mineral resources, and wait until the last minute, that a Ukrainian soldier will bring him the head of a Russian bear on a plate in the form of a militarily exhausted, economically ruined, internationally isolated and domestically politically undermined Russia," the Slovak prime minister writes, adding that he does not share this strategy of the West.
He says he is not one of those Slovak politicians who are happy that the Russian Federation is being turned into a mortal enemy in Slovakia, and he does not like the fact that Slovakia is being called an enemy country in Russia for this reason.
"It is literally shocking to see how the West has repeatedly made mistakes in assessing the situation in Russia. The facts are inexorable... Ukraine is not capable of a full-fledged military counter-offensive; it has become completely dependent on Western financial aid with unpredictable consequences for Ukrainians in the coming years," Fico says.
However, he predicts that weapons and money will continue to flow into Ukraine for some time to come – "but to no avail".
"It is obvious that the waste of human resources and money and the passage of time will not worsen Russia's negotiating position, but rather strengthen it, because in a few years, the international community will also start to organise a retreat, looking at reality," Fico said.
As he said, "it is absolutely clear to everyone" that the crisis in Ukraine has no military solution.
"If there is one thing I wish for, it is for the Slavs to stop fighting each other for geopolitical reasons, both from the American and Russian sides," Fico wrote.
The Slovakian prime minister believes that Ukraine has the right to follow its own sovereign path, not the one dictated by the EU: "If it sees itself in the EU, let it have this chance if it fulfils the conditions. We will be happy to help".
At the same time, he said, Russia also needs security guarantees.
"And I continue to believe that we have to go back to the recent European rhetoric that the EU and Russia are somehow connected vessels and that they need each other. As the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, I will not spread hostility towards any country in the world, and I also wish for a gradual standardisation of relations between EU member states and Russia," Fico said.
Background:
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After his appointment as prime minister, Fico has confirmed that he would not support military aid to Ukraine, as he said during the election campaign. He also opposes EU sanctions against Russia and wants to block Ukraine's accession to NATO.
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After a meeting with the Russian ambassador, Fico said that Slovakia should prepare for the period after the end of the war in Ukraine and for the normalisation of Slovak-Russian relations.
