Slovakia's former Prime Minister Robert Fico reached a deal on October 11 with center-left and nationalist parties to form a new government that is expected to scale back the country's support for Ukraine. Fico, whose party Direction-Social Democracy (Smer) won an election on September 30 with pledges to halt military aid to Ukraine and criticism of sanctions on Russia, would lead a government that would also include ministers from the far-right SNS party and Hlas-SD, a breakaway party from Smer.
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