Fico announced Slovakia's payment of €4 million for refusing to accept migrants

Slovakia will pay approximately €4 million in 2026 for refusing to accept migrants under the European Union (EU) migration pact. This was announced on June 19 by the country's Prime Minister Robert Fico.

"Slovakia, according to the EU solidarity mechanism, will make a contribution of about €4 million in 2026 for refusing to accept migrants," he told reporters, as quoted by TASS.

According to Fico, the government does not consider the pact to be a "good thing," but it will enter into force despite resistance. Nevertheless, he noted that it is better to make this contribution than to accept migrants, who could be 200 people this year.

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The reason was a video of a migrant attacking a Belfast resident.

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on June 13 that the former authorities, led by Viktor Orban, were allegedly preparing to let hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country, although they publicly opposed this. According to him, the previous government began building a refugee camp near the border with Austria, planned to allocate millions of euros and create a "filtration zone," but abandoned this idea under pressure from local residents.