Slovakia's President Peter Pellegrini has sworn in the new minister of tourism and sports in a reshuffle to stabilize the government.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Friday the possibility of shipping Azerbaijani gas was part of discussions with the European Commission on restarting transit flows through Ukraine.

The simple answer is that the more Slovakia has turned east under Fico, the further mutual relations have gone south. The Czech Republic remains one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters in its war with Russia, having welcomed 385,000 Ukrainian refugees (third most in the EU) and fronted an initiative to procure ammunition for Kyiv.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was set to reclaim a slim parliamentary majority for the government on Thursday after submitting to the president a proposed cabinet change and declaration of support from four unaligned lawmakers.

Fico responded to Šimečka's remarks, asking why he did not disclose "how much his family has raked in from state and international subsidy schemes".

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to block the European Union summit on Thursday to approve financial and military aid to Ukraine, Česke Novyny reports.