Terrorist threat in Slovakia might increase this year: report

The threat of terrorism in Slovakia might increase this year in the context of increased security threats to European Union member countries, said a report on the Security Situation in Slovakia in 2015, which was approved by the government on Thursday.

Threats could be linked mainly to security developments in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan, according to the report, which reveals that military failures of terrorist organisations in the Middle East might prompt them to retaliate somewhere in Europe.

"Threats arising from a so-called arc of instability ranging along the southern and south-eastern EU border are expected to persist due to local political instability and armed activities by terrorist groups," said the document.

The rate of migration and refugee waves heading to the EU cannot be expected to slow down in the near future, it said.

"If borders are blocked in the long term by countries lying on the so-called Balkan route, the current route could be deflected to Italy and/or eastwards, and the eastern migration route could affect the territory of Slovakia as well," read the report.

In connection with growing terrorist activities in European countries and waves of refugees there is a threat of increased radicalisation of society in Europe, including Slovakia, the report added. Endit