Slovakia has pushed back on U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands to curb Russian oil imports, aligning itself with Hungary.
“We don’t have any other options which could be sustainable and also for the price to be reasonable,” Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar told Reuters during an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 24.
“It takes time to diversify this. So that’s why we are calling for some kind of empathy.”
He said that sanctions had not worked to change the course of the Russia–Ukraine war, which started in 2022.
Since then, the European Union has managed to reduce much of its reliance on Moscow’s energy, but has yet to turn off the taps….