Slovakia takes over the six-month EU presidency on 1July. Robert Fico, Slovakia's prime minister, says that ‘migrants change the character of our country’ and ‘multiculturalism is a fiction’. Fico has argued that Slovakia has no obligation to house Muslim refugees. ‘Since Slovakia is a Christian country, we cannot tolerate an influx of 300,000 to 400,000 Muslim immigrants who will start building mosques all over our land and change the nature, culture and values of the state.’ Fico declared he would ‘never make a decision that would lead to a unified Muslim community in Slovakia.’ Slovakia’s borders with Hungary and Austria have an additional 220 police officers assigned to maintain border checks. Migrants are arrested and usually sent back to their home country. See