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Migration in the EU
Bratislava will host candlelight vigil
ON THE occasion of the International Migrants Day, which falls on December 18, a candlelight vigil for migrants who died or went missing when trying to escape to another country will be held in Bratislava.
Christian refugees from Iraq arrive in Slovakia
A GROUP of 149 Assyrian Christians from Iraq, who are being accepted as part of Slovakia's voluntary contribution to resolving the migration crisis arrived in Slovakia at 10:25 on December 10.
Smugglers intended to bring dozens of Syrians to Europe
POLICE have arrested a Syrian-Slovak couple suspected of intending to smuggle Syrians with modified passports into Europe.
Accomodation project for refugees ends due to conflicts
AFTER citizens of towns and villages in Nitra region learned that soon twenty-five Assyrian Christian families from Iraq will become their neighbours, conflicts ensued leading to a stop of the whole project.
Visegrad Four seeks friends
THE VISEGRAD Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) wants to initiate within the EU the creation of a broader Friends of Schengen group, according to a decision passed at the V4 prime ministers summit in Prague on December 3.
Slovakia filed lawsuit against quotas
SLOVAKIA filed a lawsuit against the Council of the European Union concerning the adoption of mandatory refugee quotas on December 2.
Christian families from Iraq are coming to Nitra Region
Twenty-five families of Assyrian Christians from Iraq are to be integrated into several villages of the Nitra Region during the following years.
UPDATED: Prime Minister Fico wants Greece to leave Schengen
AHEAD of the European Union-Turkey summit in Brussels on November 29, Prime Minister Robert Fico commented that the European Union probably does not have a better way of limiting migration flows than coming to an agreement with Turkey, he said on November 27.
Schengen will not shrink
THE COUNCIL of the European Union for Internal Affairs and Justice held a meeting in Brussels on November 20, the first since the November 13 attacks. There, the Netherlands refuted the news published earlier by media about the intent to create a “mini-Schengen” which would exclude some current members, e.g. Slovakia.
Interior Ministry rejects idea of mini-Schengen
Eastern European countries including Slovakia could be kicked out of the Schengen Zone, according to a proposal which was presented on November 19 at the EU interior ministers meeting, the Daily Mail reported on November 18. The Slovak Interior Ministry denies the existence of such a plan.
Police arrest around 20 illegal residents
A STRINGENT security regime has been put in place in Slovakia since the terror attacks in Paris, which has resulted in the arrests of some 20 people who were residing in Slovakia illegally, the TASR newswire reported on November 19.
Smer links terror and refugees in campaign
AFTER its refusal of refugee quotas, Slovakia’s government once again stands out among European Union members. Following the Paris attacks, the country’s prime minister earned some harsh criticism for linking the migration crisis with terrorism.
Fico: Security more important than migrants' rights
THE RECENT terrorist attacks in Paris that claimed the lives of more than 120 people and injured more than 300 prompted politicians, analysts but also members of the Islamic Foundation to react.
Fico: Slovakia to contribute to Fund for Africa
SLOVAK Prime Minister Robert Fico has welcomed the official EU-Africa Summit which started in Malta on November 11, noting that African countries, as well as Turkey, also need to be engaged in addressing the migration crisis, the TASR newswire reported on November 12.
Fico: We should take 25 families speaking the language of Jesus
SLOVAKIA is working on a project involving the resettlement into Slovakia of 25 Christian families who speak the ancient Aramaic language, the language of Jesus Christ.
2,000 volunteers are ready to help refugees
AS THE government was refusing to take in the 802 asylum seekers allocated under the EU’s redistribution plan, the Kto pomôže (Who Will Help?) initiative recruited volunteers who said they were willing to personally house migrants.
Missing the goal
IMAGINE Slovan Bratislava’s football stadium filled to capacity before two more people are let in. Would those in the stadium even notice the difference?
Fico leaves for Malta for a summit on migration crisis
SLOVAK Prime Minister Robert Fico left the country on November 11 for a two-day summit to be attended by European Union (EU) leaders in Valletta (Malta).
Fico campaigns also at school
PRIME Minister Robert Fico promised to uphold the deadline for submitting a lawsuit regarding the Council of the European Union’s decision to redistribute 120,000 migrants among EU member states on a quota basis to the Court of Justice of the EU.
Kaliňák: Design of the hot-spot system is flawed
The Monday meeting of interior ministers of EU member countries has not yielded any headway forward from the viewpoint of the migration crisis and could have been carried out also as a video-conference.
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