Jan Orlovsky

Director of Open Society Foundation Slovakia

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Director of Open Society Foundation Slovakia, which is part of the international grantmaking network founded by George Soros. He also served in the Slovakian foreign service.

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An emergency summit of the European Union convened in Brussels today after yesterday’s decision by their interior ministers to re-settle 120,000 refugees from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea.

Europe’s Response to the Refugee Crisis

An emergency summit of the European Union convened in Brussels today after yesterday’s decision by their interior ministers to re-settle 120,000 refugees from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea.

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