Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico has said he will meet Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tomorrow, as the dispute with Ukraine over oil flows through the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline drags on.
The pipeline was hit in a strike in Ukraine late January, disrupting Russian oil flows to Slovakia and Hungary.
Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have since exchanged in a war of words that dramatically escalated on Friday, when Hungary detained, then released, seven Ukrainian bank workers transporting gold and cash via his landlocked country.
We’ll have more on the planned talks between Fico and the Commission chief in tomorrow.