The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Heger, stressed that “the high cost of electricity has put the Slovak economy at risk of collapse.”

He explained, according to what the American newspaper The Financial Times quoted in an interview with Heger, that the rise in prices after the Russian attack on Ukraine would “kill” the country’s economy if it did not receive billions of euros of support from the European Union. He also warned that he would have to nationalize the country’s energy supply if that didn’t happen.

And Bloomberg reported, citing sources, that “the European Union will postpone the decision to impose a ceiling on oil prices from Russia due to disagreements between countries.” According to the agency, a number of countries, including Hungary and Cyprus, are against setting a price ceiling for Russian oil.

Earlier, the Russian authorities, commenting on the G7 and the European Commission’s statement about their intention to introduce a price ceiling, confirmed that they would not export energy to all countries that impose a ceiling on Russian energy prices.