The Finance Ministry of Slovakia reported this week that the nation’s economic growth will swell to nearly five percent next year as a result of increased automotive output, in one of Europe’s greatest economic success stories.
VIENNA (AP) – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says he’s positioning his country as a bridge between the “Visegrad group” of eastern European nations and their western counterparts. Kurz said he agreed with the Visegrad countries – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland
Contents: European Union continues to face crises regarding migration; Bitter divisions emerge at EU summit over migration issues
Both ruling parties in Hungary and Poland are seeing a surge in public backing following their sustained rejection of internationalist bodies’ pro-mass migration policies, signalling citizens prefer governments that stand by conservative values and protect their nations’ borders.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that Hungary and Slovakia must take in redistributed migrants from other European Union (EU) member states rejecting the legal challenges by the two countries.
Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron accuses EU countries of ‘social and fiscal dumping’; Britain sees a big fall in net migration since Brexit vote
The Court of Justice of the European Union has rejected the advice of one of its own Advocates-General to rule that migrants can be sent back to the bloc’s border states, effectively overturning the “open door” policy ushered in by Germany’s Angela Merkel in 2015 – but, contradictorily, it also appears set to uphold a scheme to redistribute migrants from those border states to other EU members.
Hungary and Slovakia must take migrants from the third world, the Advocate General of Brussels’ top court said Wednesday, advising judges dismiss their case challenging the mandatory relocation scheme.
BUDAPEST — Unaware that his remarks were also being transmitted to reporters outside, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the European Union in unusually harsh terms on Wednesday for its treatment of Israel, urging the leaders of four Central European countries to use their influence in the organization to ease its conditions for advancing bilateral ties.
Finland’s finance minister has added his voice to those calling for European Union funding to be withdrawn from member states which refuse to take in migrants.
The governments of Hungary and Slovakia are making their case to the European Court of Justice after refusing to take in redistributed migrants from Greece and Italy.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Great Britain doesn’t exist in Slovakia.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote requested by the opposition over high energy prices.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has established a new police unit to fight terrorism and far-right extremism, the prime minister said Wednesday.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has established a new police unit to fight terrorism and far-right extremism, the prime minister said Wednesday. Robert Fico, who introduced the new unit, said that he was glad that police can now “react to
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico urged other European leaders on Monday to stop calling referendums on domestic issues, saying they posed a threat to the EU and to the euro.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Europeans’ patience for mass migration is running out following the attack in Berlin.
Slovakia’s parliament has passed a bill, by a two-thirds majority, effectively barring Islam from gaining official status as a religion.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Foreign ministers from central and southeastern Europe and the European Union’s top diplomat discussed on Tuesday challenges to the regions’ security and the need for close cooperation with and within the European Union to counter various
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told journalists they were “dirty, anti-Slovak prostitutes” on Wednesday when asked about allegations that public procurement rules had been broken for cultural events marking Slovakia’s European Union presidency.
Contents: EU’s expected scathing report on Turkey may scuttle refugee deal; Austria says EU must prepare for collapse of Turkey migrant deal; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán defeated in attempt to ban refugee quotas
(REUTERS) – Five Slovaks are facing charges of smuggling at least 300 illegal migrants last year from Hungary to western Europe, mostly to Germany and Italy, Slovakian police said on Friday.
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovakia wants the European Union to drop a proposal to distribute asylum seekers and start working on an alternative plan, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Friday, repeating his view that a permanent quota system was politically
Contents: Iran brags that Sanaa Yemen is the fourth Arab capital they control; Qatar remains reluctant partner in coalition against ISIS in Syria; CDC warns of possibly 1.4 million Ebola infections in West Africa
British Prime Minister Theresa May has rebuffed warnings from EU Member States who are threatening to veto Brexit negotiations unless free movement of people into Britain in preserved. Ms May insisted that the remaining EU member states will do a
Leaders of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia will present their vision for a more nationalist European Union (EU) at a summit in Bratislava next week. They will argue for an EU that has strong borders and protects the national identities of its member states, but has limited ability to interfere with countries’ domestic matters.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s prime minister is hosting her counterparts from the Visegrad Group of central European countries for talks on the European Union’s future in the wake of Britain’s decision to leave the EU. The meeting is to
(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
(Reuters) – Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on Thursday Slovakia’s failure to admit its quota of 1,500 refugees under a European Union plan would hobble its ability to lead when it assumes the rotating EU presidency in July. Asselborn,
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
Contents: Turkey and Hungary play hardball at EU-Turkey refugee summit; With summer approaching, European politicians may be close to panic
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
Leftist Prime Minister Robert Fico won Slovakia’s general elections on Saturday on the back of a strident anti-refugee platform, but lost his parliamentary majority as a scattering of smaller parties including the extreme right won seats, according to exit polls.
(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
Residents of Crewe in northern England have accused a school and the local police force of covering up violent attacks by Slovakian pupils in the school, including children being thrown down flights of stairs and threatened with rape. The headmaster has allegedly responded
Reuters – Slovakia’s foreign minister said on Friday the very low percentage of migrants so far relocated to European Union member states under the bloc’s compulsory quota system showed it was not working and he called for a rethink. Eastern
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
Nearly 150 Iraqi Christian refugees, including 62 children, are no longer facing devastating persecution in their homeland at the hands of the murderous Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), thanks to an American husband and wife who helped them flee to Europe, ABC News reports.
Pope Francis said that on hearing the news of the passing of Cardinal Korec, he was moved with “deep emotion” and sorrow, calling him “a generous and zealous shepherd who in his long ministry in the Church offered a fearless witness of the Gospel” and was a “staunch defender of the faith and human rights.” The pontiff sent a telegram of condolences to the President of Slovakia’s bishops’ conference.
