Slovakia's opposition accused Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday of laying the groundwork to take the country out of the European Union, but dropped its no-confidence motion to dismiss him and his leftist-nationalist government.

Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.

Slovak opposition leader Michal Simecka accused Prime Minister Robert Fico of laying the ground to take the country out of the European Union as he launched an attempt to dismiss the leftist-nationalist government in a no-confidence vote on Tuesday.

Slovakia's PM Robert Fico faces accusations from the opposition of setting the stage for an EU exit. While the opposition withdrew its no-confidence motion due to Fico's secretive parliamentary actions,

(Reuters) -Slovakia's opposition parties will call a no-confidence vote against the government, a party chief said on Tuesday, accusing Prime Minister Robert Fico of dragging foreign policy closer to Russia while failing to tackle problems at home.

Slovakia's Moscow-friendly prime minister has faced accusations by the country's largest opposition party of trying to take the country out of the EU. View on euronews

The largest opposition party, Progresívne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia), is ahead of Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party, in opinion polls. The gap between them is slight, this is evidenced by the data from an Ipsos poll,

Zelenskiy had invited Fico to visit Kyiv for talks on Friday, an invitation he alluded to as he announced his meeting with Michal Simecka, the head of Progressive Slovakia, the country's biggest opposition party.