Fitzo said Slovakia and the EC work on organizing gas supplies from Azerbaijan

Slovakia and the European Commission (EC) are working on the organization of gas supplies from Azerbaijan. This was announced by the country's Prime Minister Robert Fitzo on Monday, February 3.

"Together with the European Commission we are working on an alternative - import of gas from Azerbaijan to Slovakia, which, on the one hand, would provide good, high-quality and safe gas supplies for our country while ensuring domestic consumption. Along with this, gas transit could be gradually restored," Fitzo said in a video message recorded after the informal EU summit in Brussels and published on Facebook (owned by Meta, a company recognized as extremist and banned in Russia).

At the same time, Fitzo hopes that the negotiation process will "bring good news" soon.

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Earlier, on January 29, Romanian members of the European Parliament Giorgiana Teodorescu and Adrian-George Axinia expressed concern over Ukraine 's decision to refuse to extend gas transit from Russia to Europe.

The day before, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo said that if the Ukrainian authorities did not resume gas transit, the republic would block all aid from the EU. He emphasized that "the threat of retaliatory measures is the only language that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (his term expired in May 2024) understands".

According to him, stopping gas transit would cost the EU €500 million a year. In addition, Fitzo called Zelensky an enemy of Slovakia. He also considered outrageous the behavior of the Ukrainian president, who sent the minutes of their meeting, which has not yet taken place.

On January 24, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on the European Union to defend the interests of the member states of the association before Ukraine, whose decision impedes the energy supply to Hungary and Slovakia.

Ukraine has officially announced its refusal to extend its agreement with Russia on gas transit to Europe after the contract expires on December 31, 2024.

On January 1, 2025, Gazprom said it would suspend gas supplies through Ukraine. On the same day, Fitzo noted that this would have drastic consequences for the EU, but not for Russia.