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Category: Slovakia
Peter Oborne: Truth is the Eu is more bigoted than the Us
This week has seen worldwide outrage against President Donald Trump and his temporary ban on people entering the United States from seven mostly Muslim countries. There have been demonstrations across the globe and a petition here trying to stop the President’s State visit to the UK has been signed more than 1.8 million times.
‘Fear of the Unknown’ at National Technical Library says No to hatred and intolerance
A new exhibition entitled ‘Fear of the Unknown’, previously shown in an earlier inception in Bratislava, opened this week at Prague’s National Technical Library, focussing on the plight of refugees and the discourse surrounding the migrant crisis. The discussion is one which has been highly-politicised and exploited not only by fringe politicians but sadly even by the political mainstream.
Slovakia establishes police unit to fight terror, extremism
In this March 6, 2016 file picture, chief of the extreme right Kotleba – People’s Party Our Slovakia Marian Kotleba arrives for a television debate in Bratislava, Slovakia. Slovakia has established a new police unit to fight terrorism and far-right extremism.