“I don’t know how to start,” Matovic admitted visibly nervously at the outset. After searching for words for a while, he finally managed to pull the speech out. However, he often stuttered, and it is clear from the record that he is not sure what to say. A recording of his performance was published by the Slovak portal tvnoviny.
“This summit may be the beginning of something very nice in our common European house, because our commitment to be more friendly to our nature, to be more ecological, is certainly right. Commitment and good discussion. I look forward to today, although it will not be decided today , or tomorrow, maybe we will decide at the December summit, “the Slovak prime minister said.
He promised to ask in the debate on the climate crisis how the EU as a whole plans to achieve the environmental goal, who will pay for it and how EU members will put pressure on trading partners in Asia and America.
“Because if we are slowly greener than the trees in ten years, if I lighten it up a bit, and at the same time our partners will continue to do something possible from nature,” Matovič continued, and then stuck.
“Can we do it again?” he asked the cameramen. After a while, he tried again in English and was horrified to find that he would never take the confused speech back. “Live? Oh no!” he blurted out in English as soon as he learned that the cameras were moving all the time.
The desperate prime minister immediately grabbed his head. He tried to save the situation by presenting his statement again and this time fluently and without stuttering. Unfortunately, it was too late – the embarrassment was born.
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