Is there a risk of the Europeans abandoning Ukraine? Those informed about Europe on October 1st

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Former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose party won the legislative elections on September 30, 2023, is in favor of stopping aid to Ukraine (JAKUB GAVLAK / MAXPPP)

François Beaudonnet and Jean-Rémi Baudot receive Audrey Vuetazauthor of the podcast Trait d’Union, and Alla LazarevaUkrainian journalist, Paris correspondent for The Ukrainian Week.

Tired of this endless war, tired of inflation (especially galloping in eastern Europe), are the Europeans abandoning Ukraine? In Slovakia, former Prime Minister Robert Fico, whose populist Smer-SD party won Saturday’s legislative elections, risks tilting the diplomatic balance of his country very clearly in favor of the Kremlin: if his party comes to power, Slovakia will no longer send “a single bullet” to Ukraine, the 59-year-old former communist recently declared.

Another subject: while the 27 decided this week to abandon a stricter anti-pollution standard for thermal cars, more and more voices are calling for a break in the European Green Deal. Is Europe turning its back on its ecological commitments?

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