1. MIGRATION POLICY OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC AND THE NEW SECURITY STRATEGY
Piotr Sieniawski
Institute of Political Science
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

2. Residence permits in Slovakia 2015 - 2017
Migration in Slovakia
Residence permits in Slovakia
(Ministry of Interior of the SR)
Type of citizenship
2015
2016
2017
EU citizens
49 526
52 015
54 056
3rd country citizens
35 621
41 232
50 395
2015
2016
2017
Temporary residence
21 089
26 590
34 570
Permanent residence
13 270
14 347
15 589
Tolerated residence
902
295
236

3. Illegal border crossings 2015 - 2017
Migration in Slovakia
Illegal border crossings
(Ministry of Interior of the SR)
2015
2016
2017
Ukraine
867
1234
1786
Syria
582
Iraq
145
Serbia
227
Afghanistan
265
123
Vietnam
160
146
114
108
Kosovo
120 82 34
Pakistan 57 62
Moldova 32 46
Russia 44 31 26 28

4. Asylum policy of the Slovak Republic
Year
Asylum Applications
Asylum Granted
Citizenship Granted
2012
732 32
2013
441 15 7
2014
331 14 12
2015
330 8 5
2016
146
167 3
2017
166 29 6
(Ministry of Interior of the SR)
“The Slovak Republic shall grant asylum to aliens persecuted for the exercise of political rights and freedoms. Such asylum may be denied to those who have acted in contradiction with fundamental human rights and freedoms. A law shall lay down the details.“
(Constitution of the Slovak Republic, Art. 53)

5. Migration in Slovakia Quotas
1st year: 612 asylum seekers (Greece) asylum seekers (Italy)
2nd year: 656 asylum seekers
altogether – 1458 persons
- in reality: 149 persons/29 families (Christian religion) from Iraq as of November 2015
21 persons left back to Iraq – “cultural difference”, family bonds
relocation of 500 asylum seekers from Austria to Slovakia (Gabčíkovo)
550 scholarships to be granted by the government by 2021
500,000 € for humanitarian projects

6. Lawsuit against “compulsory quotas”
Proposal:
- to claim the Decision of the Council of the European Union no /1601 invalid
to put the Council of the European Union under obligation to compensate the legal charges
Claims:
principle of the institutional balance violated
principle of proportionality violated
principle of legal certainty violated
no legal grounds for the Decision
6 September 2017 – actions brought by Slovakia and Hungary dismissed by CJEU
(Ministry of Justice of the SR)

7. “Antiterrorist law“ Art. 17
(3) A person charged with or suspected of a criminal offence may be detained only in cases provided by a law. A detained person must be immediately informed of the grounds thereof, and after interrogation at the latest within 48 hours, or at the latest 96 hours in case of being suspected of a crimminal offence of terrorism, must be either released or brought before a court. A judge must within 48 hours and, for especially serious criminal offences within 72 hours from bringing the detained person before him or her, hear the person and decide on his or her detention or release.
(Constitution of the Slovak Republic)

8. New Security Strategy sudden increase of irregular illegal migration
results: increase of extremism, populism, intolerance, organized crime, threat to Schengen system
migration seen as a destabilizing factor
“possible infiltration of people attracted by radical and terrorist organizations into migrants or refugees wave”
anti-Western propaganda spread on social media
taking measures against irregular illegal migration
sustainable migration and asylum policy
solutions based on solidarity, sustainability and taking into account specific potential of each Member State
specific importance of V4

9. Thank you for your attention!