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A day after Poland criticised the Nord Stream-2 deal, Sloviakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico characterised the deal as a "betrayal"

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Reuters: Slovak PM Calls Nordstream Expansion Deal a Betrayal

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Thursday a deal between Russia's Gazprom and its European partners to expand the Nordstream gas pipeline was a "betrayal" that would cost Ukraine and Slovakia a combined billions of euros.

Last week, Gazprom and its European partners signed a shareholders' agreement on the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline project that will bypass Ukraine and run beneath the Baltic Sea to Europe, bringing Europe closer into Moscow's energy orbit, a move criticized by the U.S. energy envoy.

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