The summit of European Union leaders has started in the most unusual way for Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who faced an incident at Brussels airport, where his government plane suffered serious damage after a collision with a service vehicle.
The incident occurred shortly after the Slovak delegation arrived in the Belgian capital, when a vehicle with a passenger ladder collided with the fuselage of the aircraft in such a way that the latter was declared technically unfit for the return flight.
Fico himself made the news public in an official post, where he mocked the start of the summit, calling it "a bad start to a difficult summit." He added that the plane would have to stay in Brussels for repairs, while not giving details on how its return to Slovakia would be organized.
In the same statement, Fico pointedly noted the absence of Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at the summit, to whom he reaffirmed Slovakia's support for Belgrade's controversial positions in the region.
We recall that the Slovak Prime Minister has been in the spotlight internationally before, after in May 2024 he was shot four times by a 71-year-old man in an assassination attempt that shocked European public opinion and was described as the most serious attack on a political leader in the EU in the last two decades.
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