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Slovakia sending police to help Macedonia
To cope with the influx of migrants
05 January, 17:20
(ANSA-AP) - ANKARA - Slovakia's prime minister says his country is ready to deploy 25 police officers requested by Macedonia to help the Balkan country cope with the influx of migrants.
Robert Fico said on Tuesday that the officers will be deployed Feb 1. Macedonia, which is not a member of the European Union, is part of the so-called Balkans route that refugees have used on their way to rich Western countries. Slovakia previously sent dozens of police officers to EU member states Hungary and Slovenia to help with the migrant crisis there.
Fico says "radical measures" are necessary to be taken to protect the external border of the EU's Schengen borderless zone.(ANSA-AP)
