Slovakia

Immigration
More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union by land or sea in 2015, fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa through Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Hungary, or Croatia. In the fall of 2015, Slovakia opposed a plan for mandatory national quotas to share out 120,000 asylum seekers among the bloc's 28 member states, challenging the plan in court. Under the scheme to take in 802 migrants, Slovakia argued it had no power to keep migrants if they wished to move on to richer EU member states. As a result, Slovakia sent police officers to both Hungary and Macedonia in the beginning of 2016 to help them guard the borders.