Tag Archives: Slovakia

Slovakia withdrew its participation from the Turkish military exercise “Anadolu Ankasi 2021” on Thursday, after a Greek demarche due to the participation of  Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus in the drill. According to a Greek Foreign Ministry statement, the participation [of the Turkish-occupied north Cyprus] was conveyed by Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan …

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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday dismissed a challenge by Slovakia and Hungary against the EU’s relocation policy for asylum seekers, upholding the EU’s right to oblige member countries to take in refugees. In response to the migration crisis that hit Europe in the summer of 2015, the …

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Greece bowed to Spanish blackmail and granted immunity to three former members of the country’s privatization agency. Right after the Eurogroup agreement last week, Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guintos had threatened to block the disbursement of 8.5 billion euro bailout tranche, if the ex HRADF members would not be …

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Slovakia, together with Spain and Greece, are the countries with the largest decline in the youth unemployment within the eurozone area. According to a report of the European Central, the unemployment rate among workers between 15 and 24 years old, dropped in the years 2013 to 2016. The study uploaded …

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Alternate Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas speaking to ANT1 TV on Thursday said that his statement that Idomeni will not reopen and that Greece will be a settlement country for refugees was misinterpreted. Mouzalas clarified that the refugees will stay at the temporary hosting camps for as long as it is …

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Slovak prime minister Robert Fico suffered a delirium attack and claimed “there will be a single hot spot and its name will be Greece.” Threatened by his opponents ahead of the upcoming elections on Sunday, the Slovak official accused  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for having “brought the crisis upon …

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Balme game in Migration crisis? Greece strikes back. The office of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras named four East European countries and accused them of “xenophobic and far-right rhetoric.” Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are the countries that trying to develop a different EU policy and and put …

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Greece submitted a diplomatic protest against Slovakia’s Finance Minister Peter Kazimir, news agency TASR reported. Reason for the Greek protest were several comments by Kazimir who described the tough Brussels agreement as “a punishment” for the “Greek spring” – in fact confirming many critics who said that the euro leaders …

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