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Oct 2, 2023 | Und plötzlich schaut ganz Europa auf die kleine Slowakei: Präsidentin Zuzana Caputova erteilt dem linksnationalen Oppositionsführer Robert Fico den Auftrag, eine Regierung zu bilden. Der Wahlsieger gilt als Kreml-Freund und hat jetzt gute Aussichten, die nächste Regierung in Bratislava zu bilden. Dies könnte zukünftige Militärhilfe aus dem EU-Staat Slowakei für die Ukraine erschweren.

Refugee Crisis Tops Agenda at EU Summit

European Union leaders have gathered in Slovakia's capital Bratislava for a summit that some have described as a crisis meeting.

The gathering was called by the Slovak government following the UK's Brexit vote to leave the EU.

Central European countries have taken the opportunity to raise objections to a plan to force them to house asylum seekers and refugees against their wishes.

Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports from Bratislava.

Queen to Meet ‘Britain’s Schindler’ in Second Stage of Tour [of the Former Yugoslavia]
Photo of Nicholas Winton, "Britain’s Schindler", courtesy of The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH: The Queen is to meet a man known as "Britain's Schindler" because of his work saving Jews from the Nazis as she continues her tour of the former Yugoslavia.

The monarch will meet Sir Nicholas Winton, 99, as she travels to the Slovakian capital Bratislava.

The Nobel Peace Prize nominee rescued around 670 Jewish Czech children in the run up to the Second World War.

In 1938, Winton, then a young stockbroker, cancelled a skiing holiday to Switzerland and went instead to Czechoslovakia on a friend's recommendation.

There he found camps full of Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi-occupied Sudetenland, and set about trying to help them.

He transported 669 youngsters to Britain before World War II broke out and, without his intervention they would almost certainly have died. >>> By Charlotte Bailey | October 23, 2008

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