Slovakia's prime minister Robert Fico has said human rights do not give people fleeing Libya the right to enter the European Union.
"There is no human right to travel to the European Union and the European Union must protect itself," he told reporters at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday (14 December).
He said the EU instead needed to shore up Libyan borders and that Slovakia, has offered, along with Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, some €35 million for the Italian-led ...
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