The search for a new solidarity in Europe by recognizing the plight of “Invisible” Migrant Workers. Migrant workers are part of the everyday economic life of Europe. Today we find Ukrainian agricultural workers in Spain, Romanian workers in German meat factories, and Slovakian, Czech and Hungarian geriatric nurses assisting Austrian families – to name a few. Usually these workers are “invisible.” Many of them are exploited both socially and economically. During their time of employment, they live in poverty level accommodations. Employee rights, such as hours or work breaks, have been ignored. During this time of COVID crisis these invisible migrant workers have become visible. The lines of exploitation often run between Western and Eastern Europe; but also occur between EU and non-EU states.

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INOCENT-MÁRIA VLADIMIR SZANISZLÓ, OP is an inaugurated professor of Catholic theology and ethics in Slovakia and since October 2017 a lecturer for human rights, peace and war ethics and bioethics at the Faculty of Social Sciences and also a lecturer in moral theology at the Mater Ecclesiae Institute at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy. He studied theology at the Faculty of Theology of Palacký University in Olomouc. After studying at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, he finally defended his dissertation on moral theology Les réflexions théologiques sur les pensées d’Hannah Arendt with Professor Eberhard Schockenhoff at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He started as an assistant at the Catholic University in Ružomberok at the Faculty of Theology in Košice and founded the Alexander Spesz Institute of Applied Ethics. After this period, he worked briefly as Vice-Rector for Science and International Relations at the Danubius University in Sládkovicovo, Slovakia.