Migration crisis

Migration in the EU

PM Robert Fico, Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok and MFA Juraj Blanár during a press briefing at the Čunovo-Rajka border crossing on September 30, 2023.

Massive police hunt for transit migrants ends in fiasco

The opposition is critical of last night's expensive police operation on the border with Hungary.

The Prístav shelter in Banská Bystrica.

Heated tents for migrants are popping up across the country

The level of illegal migration is falling, the Interior Ministry reports.

Slovak police officers check a van at the Nové Mesto - Sátoraljaújhely border crossing on October 5, 2023.

Border checks in Central Europe extended until November

Poland, Austria, Czechia and Slovakia announced border checks last week.

The Čirč - Leluchów border crossing on Oct. 4, 2023.

Slovakia reluctantly announces border checks with Hungary

Move will affect 35 border crossings from Thursday.

Czechia and Poland will reintroduce temporary border controls with Slovakia from midnight.

Poland, Austria and Czechia will introduce border checks with Slovakia from midnight

They will remain in place for 10 days. Subsequently, border checks can be extended by 20 days.

An illegal migrant in Nové Zámky, near Nitra, in September 2023.

Slovakia finds itself in eye of illegal migration storm

Migrants have been arriving in Slovakia in ever-larger numbers, attracted by a document introduced by a former Smer government five years ago which they believe, wrongly, grants them the right to stay in the EU.

Policeman during border check.

Border checks continue, Czechs insist they are necessary

The Slovak authorities insist that introducing checks at the Hungarian border would violate the Schengen Code.

Slovakia and Greece will cooperate from September.

Slovakia and Greece will cooperate on migration-related issues

The bilateral collaboration will include in-field work and the exchange of information and knowledge.

Refugees and migrants waiting for a bus at the port of Piraeus near Athens on May 4, 2020.
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Man burnt alive, refugees let down: New film returns focus to migrant camps

Tomáš Rafa's first full-length documentary, Refugees Are Welcome Here, will premiere online.

Jana Alexová
Peter Kažimír, Governor of the National Bank of SLovakia
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Eight police officers will help at borders with Turkey

They will be part of a group of 100 police officers from various EU countries.

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When did the foreign press write about Slovakia the most?

German dailies paid more attention to Slovakia than their French and Italian counterparts between 2000 and 2017.

Migration as a threat was the most common thread of disinformation being spread before the 2019 EP elections, a GLOBSEC report suggests.

Love Thy Neighbour: How the Church of Sweden advocates for people on the move

On a grassroots level, people tend to solve the problems that might look unsolvable on a macro level, says programme director Anna Hjälm.

The recording does not display an action against migrants, but comes from a totally different event.

What does Lajčák really believe in?

The time to speak up was in 2015 and 2016. Lajčák didn’t, because it wasn’t career-friendly.

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Slovakia to temporarily take 250 refugees

They will stay in the country only until they leave for their target destination.

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Pellegrini: We can take Syrian orphans

Slovakia’s prime minister admitted that Slovakia could help Greece and Italy with refugees. The Foreign Affairs Ministry is now analysing the possibilities.

Migrants arriving on the Greek coast, illustrative stock photo.

PM Pellegrini: Slovakia will accept migrants but nobody will come here without our consent

The EU summit brought agreement on the re-distribution of migrants; Slovakia will accept as many as 1,200 migrants to help neighbouring countries, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said.

Milan Nič, analyst of the German Council for Foreign Affairs

Will Slovakia be part of the "new Schengen"?

If leaders in Brussels failed to agree on immigration, we would also feel it, says analyst Milan Nič.

L-R: Slovak (Peter Pellegrini) and Hungarian (Viktor Orbán) PMs symbolically change the V4 presidency on June 21, 2018.

Orbán warns Slovakia against George Soros on a TV talk show

The Hungarian PM labelled Soros “a dangerous financial speculator”.

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