After Pellegrini's election victory: Röttgen calls for Slovakia to leave the EU. “Anyone who sides with the aggressor here does not belong in the EU,” said R Öttgen.
The opposition is accusing Slovakia of being on a similar course to Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has a friendly relationship with Putin. ‘We cannot afford a second Orban,’ said Anton Hofreiter, a Green Party politician. The liberal and conservative opposition also feared the creation of a propaganda channel.