Slovakia vows to refuse entry to Muslim refugees

Rasa - Prime Minister Robert Fico made the comments while declaring that multi-culturalism is "a fiction.”

News ID: 3790

Date: 10 January 2016 - 23:36

RNA - He told reporters that he would resist the European Commission’s plan for mandatory quotas to share 120,000 asylum seekers among the EU’s member states.

He said: "Not only are we refusing mandatory quotas, we will never make a voluntary decision that would lead to formation of a united Muslim community in Slovakia.

"Multi-culturalism is a fiction. Once you let migrants in, you can face such problems”, he said referring to the Paris shootings in November.

Slovakia is a socially conservative country with a largely Catholic population of 5.4 million people.

Last year, it received just 169 asylum requests. However this year it is being asked to accept 802 migrants under the European scheme.

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