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The country is due to accept 200 asylum seekers under EU resettlement plans – but all of them are Christians who have been persecuted in Syria.

Slovakia's interior ministry has said it will turn away Muslims because they will struggle to fit in if they have nowhere to worship.

Spokesman Ivan Metik said: "We could take 800 Muslims but we don't have any mosques in Slovakia so how can Muslims be integrated if they are not going to like it here?"

Last month, EU member states agreed to take in more than 32,000 refugees with plans to offer a further 7,000 places by the end of the year.