Slovakia to help Greece with migration crisis

Slovakia is ready to help Greece with handling the migration crisis, the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry press department told TASR on Tuesday. "Greece is a close partner and an ally within the EU and NATO. We are sensitive to the challenges it currently faces and we're ready to help our friends to handle these challenges together", said Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, who met with his Greek counterpart Nikos Xydakis in Bratislava on Tuesday. According to Lajčák, Slovakia is ready to help materially, technically, financially and via the provision of personnel. Slovakia sent 14 tonnes of humanitarian aid worth more than €150,000 to Greece last month. Lajčák suggested additional help in the form of a financial injection to build a registration centre for migrants. Lajčák warned that the migration crisis poses a threat to the EU as a whole. Therefore it's necessary to rapidly find an EU-wide solution to stop the never ending flow of migrants and to address the root causes of the migration. He advised that there's a need to reintroduce the checks at the EU external borders and to establish effective hot spots for migrants' registration as soon as possible.