How the Refugee Crisis changed the conception of European identity

... considerations. Slovakia announced it would take only Christian refugees and not Muslims[3]. The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that ‘those arriving have been raised in another religion and represent a radically different culture’, adding that ‘Europe and European identity are rooted in Christianity’[4]. The Financial Times also raised this issue: ‘A motif of cultural self-defence, of Europe as a Christian fortress justifiably barred to Muslim hordes, runs through the rhetoric of ...