BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Quotas for distributing asylum seekers among European Union member states are “politically finished”, Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said on Monday.
Hungary, Poland and other countries should have their funding slashed if they fail to show sufficient “solidarity” on migrant issues, or respect for “European values”, two influential MEPs have said.
(REUTERS) – The EU’s future cannot be decided by just two or three powerful Western members, Slovakia’s prime minister said on Thursday, in a dig at France and Germany and a plea for more involvement by the bloc’s newer ex-communist members.
Just over a month before Slovakia will take the rotating presidency of the European Union, Prime Minister Robert Fico claims that Islam has no place in his country. “”Islam has no place in Slovakia,” Fico told media on Wednesday night
Leftist Premier Robert Fico sealed a coalition deal with three right-wing and centrist parties Wednesday, handing his party a third term in office and averting the risk of an early election ahead of Slovakia’s EU presidency. Robert Fico’s populist Smer-Social Democracy
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (pictured above) won Saturday’s parliamentary election, nearly complete results showed, but gains by opposition parties including far-right extremists will complicate formation of a new government. Fico, a leftist whose anti-immigration views are
(Reuters) – Slovaks started voting on Saturday, likely to hand a third term to Prime Minister Robert Fico, a left-wing nationalist whose vocal anti-immigration stance chimes with those of Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Opinion polls show Fico’s
Directly linking Islam to the wave of New Year’s sex crimes across Europe and the Paris terror attacks, Slovakian premier Robert Fico has said his government will not allow Muslims to create “a unified community” in his country, claiming it is
This week I stood up in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and spoke about an ‘inconvenient truth’. It was a speech that most in the chamber simply did not want to hear. To howls of derision, I told the European
This is geopolitical chaos theory in practice. Every day the European Union (EU) changes direction on how it will cope with hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for a new life in Europe. Border fences go
Contents: EU votes to distribute 120,000 refugees among countries by quota; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán invokes memories of Ottoman Empire
