Fico: European politicians criticize him for meetings with Putin, then call to find out the details

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that European politicians who publicly condemn him for traveling to Russia are privately reaching out to him and seeking meetings to learn the details of his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He made the statement at a press conference broadcast by the TA3 television channel.

“It is frustrating that there is no dialogue. This hypocrisy cannot go on. I go to meet with the president of Russia — everyone criticizes me, and then everyone calls or asks for a meeting: ‘What did Putin say?’ This is the endless hypocrisy I have witnessed lately,” Fico said.

The Slovak prime minister did not name the specific European politicians who, according to him, had approached him for information about the content of the talks with Putin.

It emerged the day before that the speaker of the Polish Sejm, Włodzimierz Czarzasty, had refused to hold a meeting with Fico — in the wake of his trip to Moscow on May 9 and his talks with the Russian president.