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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Hidden Champions of Slovakia
verfasst von : Janka Táborecká-Petrovičová, Jaroslav Ďaďo, Tamara Bobáková
Erschienen in: Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Overview
Official name:
Slovak Republic
Type of government:
Republic, with parliamentary democracy
Population in 2011:
5,398,384
Land area:
48,088 km2
History 1
1918
(October) After the end of World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Slovaks and Czechs form an independent state: the Czechoslovak Republic (ČSR).
1939/1945
The Slovak Republic becomes an independent state in Central Europe under Nazi German control.
1945
After World War II, the victorious powers restore Czechoslovakia. Elections are held in 1946. The Czechoslovak Communist Party, winning 38 % of the total vote, seizes power in February 1948. Strict communist control characterizes the next 4 decades.
1968
(January-August) Communist control is interrupted only briefly in the so-called Prague Spring of 1968, followed by the invasion and occupation of the country by the armies of four Soviet bloc countries. In November 1989, the Velvet Revolution brings democracy and the downfall of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The first free elections in Czechoslovakia since 1948 take place in June 1990.
1993
(January) A peaceful declaration of the Slovak Republic’s independence from the Czech Republic. Both states obtain immediate recognition from the USA and their European neighbours and are admitted to the IMF (The former Czechoslovak Republic was one of the founding members of the IMF.)
2000
Slovakia is invited to join the OECD, and begins its European Union accession process.
2004
(March) Slovakia admitted into NATO.
2004
(May) Slovakia joins the EU.
2009
(January) Slovakia adopts the single European currency, the euro.