Czech and Slovak Federal Republic

The Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (Czech: Česká a Slovenská Federativní Republika, Slovak: Česká a Slovenská Federatívna Republika, short form CSFR ) was the last historical period Czechoslovakia, the of the name change on 22 April 1990 to the division of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992. existed.

  • 2.1 The Union Republics

History

The dispute over the name of the Czech and Slovak Federation

The name was adopted by the so-called constitutional law, this made ​​it possible to change the name of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic in the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the name was adopted offziel on 23 April 1990. And in the Slovak part of the country the term Czecho- Slovakia (Slovak: Česko - Slovensko ): However, since they could not agree on a uniform notation, in short form, the name of Czechoslovakia was in the Czech part of the country ( Czech Československo ) was used.

  • Czech: Česká Republika a Slovenská Federativní ( Československo )
  • Slovak: Slovenská a Česká Republika Federatívna ( Česko - Slovensko )

Disarmament and division of the Army

As the economy went bad, the Czechoslovak army was disarmed, was thereby the, from originally 200,000 soldiers existing apparatus, downgraded to 180,000 soldiers. On 25 December 1992 it was divided into the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic and the armed forces of the Slovak Republic.

Division and the end of Czechoslovakia

In 1992 caused large parts of the public political elite of the Czech Republic and Slovakia ( represented especially great in this role: Václav Klaus and Vladimír Meciar ) the total dissolution of the State Union, which by the end of President Václav Havel, and the leader of the Slovak Christian Ján Čarnogurský, was defended. The many problems in the economy and other parts, called for a quick resolution of the problem. So passed the Federal Assembly on 25 November 1992, a law on subdivision of the state, its effect on. January 1, 1993 should occur.

Reactions of the population to the division of Czechoslovakia

Shortly before the division had about 60 % of the national population against the division of Czechoslovakia.

  • Czech Republic: 65 % against division
  • Slovakia: 55 % against division

In 2002 the company ODS conducted a new survey of the two countries, the results were thereby changed again:

  • Czech Republic: 60% against division
  • Slovakia: 32% sharing

Management

The Union Republics

After the fall of socialism in Czechoslovakia, the word " socialist " wiped on behalf of the two republics, the two republics retained their status and were incorporated into the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.

The complicated system of parliamentary vote (there were in fact five different circles, each possessed a veto ). The complicated and different system delayed policy decisions during the radical changes in the economy. 1993, both countries became independent.

Ethnic conflicts

In socialist Czechoslovakia were national issues and conflicts, as suppressed in the two other multicultural societies, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, always on the part of the respective Communist Party and solutions branded as " incitement " or " nationalistic ". After the fall of communism occurred precisely these ethnic conflicts back to the surface.

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