Slovakia 1989-1992






Slovakia Independent, since 1993



Slovakia joined EU and NATO in 2004. In 1995 Slovakia signed a treaty with Hungary, concerning the status of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.
In the eary years after independence, populist Vladimir Meciar, despite occasional setbacks, was the most influential politician, with his decisions irritating reform-minded Slovaks and foreign politicians alike. Only with his ousture in the elections of 1998 began Slovakia's modernization, the establishment of a stable democracy. Minority rights (violated by a 1995 law, despite the treaty signed with Hungary earlier that year) were guaranteed in 1999.






EXTERNAL
LINKS 		Article Slovakia, from Wikipedia
Timeline, from BBC News
Political Resources on the Web : Slovakia; For the Record 2000 : Slovakia, from UN Human Rights System; Article Politics of Slovakia, from Wikipedia; Country Report 2003 : Slovak Republic, from Polity IV
DOCUMENTS Election results, from Psephos (since 1998); from IFES Election Guide (since 1998)
REFERENCE Julius Bartl et al., Slovak History, Chronology & Lexicon, Wauconda, Illinois : Bolchazy-Carducci 2002
Peter A. Toma, The Crumbling Wall of Socialism and the Velvet Revolution, pp.229-257, The Breakup of the Czechoslovak Federation, pp.258-282 in : Peter A. Toma, Dusan Kovac, Slovakia from Samo to Dzurinda, Stanford : Hoover Institution Press 2001 [G]
Article : Slovakia, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1993-1994 pp.1169-1175, 1994-1995 pp.1172-1177, 1995-1996 pp.1163-1167, 1996-1997 pp.1139-1143, 1997-1998 pp.1141-1145, 1998-1999 pp.1245-1250, 2000 pp.1395-1401, 2001 pp.1359-1366, 2002 pp.1414-1420, 2003 pp.1413-1419, 2004 pp.1434-1440, 2005 pp.1444-1450, 2006 pp.1451-1457 [G]
Entry : Background Notes : Slovakia pp.323-328, Travel Warning - Slovak Republic, pp.603-605, in : Countries of the World and their Leaders Yearbook, 2000, Supplement [G]
Entry : Slovakia, Cabinet p.89, in : Countries of the World and their Leaders Yearbook, 2003 [G]
Entry : Slovak Republic, pp.900-903 in : IMF, International Financial Statistics Yearbook 2001 [G]
Article : Slovakia, in : Americana Annual 1994 p.472 (on events of 1993) [G]
Article : Slovakia, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1994, pp.453, 712, 1995, pp.469-470, 712, 1996 pp.467, 712, 1997 pp.471-472, 710, 2002 pp.490, 724 [G]


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