Known by its acronym SNS, the political party demanded Fico not to support Ukrainian accession to the bloc during his entire term, according to a statement.

The demand comes after the Slovak Prime Minister expressed his support for Kyiv’s pro-European aspirations in a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky on May 2.

The Prime Minister has no mandate to speak on behalf of Slovakia regarding support for Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, the nationalist party stressed in its statement. Political analysts noted that the SNS’s stance reflects growing skepticism in some Eastern European countries toward accelerated EU enlargement, amidst the conflict with Russia.

Meanwhile, experts in EU integration remembered that Ukraine received candidate status in June 2022, a largely symbolic gesture, and that the actual accession process typically takes years or decades, as in the cases of Turkey (1999) and the Western Balkans.

The domestic power struggle within the Slovak governing coalition highlights the tensions between maintaining unity in support of Kyiv against Moscow and the reluctance of some political sectors to compromise decision-making mechanisms and EU funds with potential Ukrainian membership.

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