Thousands of exhausted, elated people fleeing their Arab and Asian homelands reached their dream destinations of Germany and Austria on Saturday, completing epic journeys by boat, bus, train and foot to escape war and poverty.
Following the first ever joint tripartite meeting of Czech and Slovak
representatives on Monday, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said he
wanted the Czech Republic to bring the country’s minimum wage to the
The Czech Republic and Slovakia have insisted on the need to strengthen the
protection of the outer border of the Schengen zone, Prime Minister
Bohuslav Sobotka and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said after a meeting
Migrants wear identification bracelets aboard a Norwegian ship during a search-and-rescue mission off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, September 1. Europe is in the midst of a migration crisis.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia stuck to their rejection of quotas for redistributing asylum-seekers flooding Europe on Monday after the EU executive proposed moving thousands of migrants to the central European countries.
According to Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec, around 60 Syrian
refugees have applied for asylum in the Czech Republic so far this year.
Meanwhile, far greater numbers of refugees are traversing the country from
Inter Allies have announced the transfer of midfielder Niare Benogo to Slovakian side FC Spartak Trnava on a short-term loan deal. But Spartak Trnava have the first option to make the player's stay permanent when his loan deal expires after 31 December, 2015.
The Czech Republic should accept almost 3,000 refugees while neighbouring
Slovakia would take around 1,500 under a plan by the European Commission,
the Dutch daily de Volkskrant reports. The newspaper cited a source close
