WASHINGTON — Slovakia’s chief diplomat, Miroslav Lajčák, turned tense when asked to explain why his country is leading resistance against the German-backed effort to residstribute migrants across the bloc.
“You cannot turn into a multi-cultural society overnight,” Lajčák told POLITICO in an interview at the German Marshall Fund’s ornate Washington office in late December.
The country of about 5 million has been trying to block EU plans to allocate thousands of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African migrants — many of them Muslim — across the European Union, via a quota system.
And in conversations in Washington, Lajčák, Slovakia’s foreign minister and deputy …read more
Source: European Voice
