The Slovak Presidential Palace in Bratislava, Slovakia. A Council of Europe report urges the country to do more to protect the rights of its LGBT citizens.
The escalation of the war in Syria and the approach of winter have given added urgency to an EU summit on migration - the fourth one this year to focus on the crisis.
After fleeing civil war, surviving a perilous sea crossing and trudging through several countries, Syrian refugees think they will receive basic food, shelter and fair treatment when they reach Austria. Most are right, but some tell a different tale.
The International Organization for Migration said more than 593... . Syrian refugees play in the snow at the refugee home in the former Rehberg Hospital in the Harz mountains in St. Andreasberg, Germany, Oct. 14, 2015.
BRATISLAVA: Europe's human rights watchdog slammed Slovakia and the Czech Republic on Wednesday for lack of progress in eliminating segregation of Roma children in schools and hate speech in political discourse directed at Europe's poorest minority.
Slovakia yesterday voted in its parliament to send 50 police officers to neighboring Hungary to help control the number of “migrants” crossing the country’s borders, Reuters reported yesterday.
EU Ministers struggling with mandatory quotas to address a migration and refugee crisis over which they have little control, seem to have forgotten or overlooked the fact that fourteen years ago their predecessors created a tool ready for use in just such a crisis.
We forecast Slovak real GDP to expand by 3.0% and 3.3% in 2015 and 2016 respectively, with domestic demand being the engine of growth. Slovakia's consumer price index was in contraction for much of 2014 and falling oil prices mean that inflation will stay lower for longer into 2015.
I recently came back from a four-star show in Samorin, Slovakia , 20 minutes outside of Bratislava. It's a country I haven't visited for almost 25 years and it was a very different experience to my last trip.
