Kos might also find it tough to answer questions about her professional past, including recent allegations of a link to the former Yugoslavia’s secret police more than three decades ago.
More recently, Kos was Slovenia’s ambassador to Germany and Switzerland between 2013 and 2020 and resigned in the wake of complaints by employees at the embassy about inappropriate management.
The ex-diplomat is a “close ally” of Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob, whose party “supports Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression in their country,” according to Slovenian political scientist Alem Maksuti.
A spokesperson for Ukraine’s foreign ministry declined to comment on Kos specifically and added Kyiv would focus on the actions of officials rather than their words.
“We always look at what people do, not what they say. Of course, when there are sayings contradictory to our interests or disrespectful to Ukraine, we react, but our primary goal is to look at actions, not words,” she said.
A former vice president of Golob’s Slovenian Democratic Party, Kos broke with him in a bid to be the party’s presidential candidate. She reportedly refused to be the commissioner candidate earlier this year, when she was also asked to lead his list for the European election but accepted the role once the previous nominee dropped out.
