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The Reemergence of Slovakia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Sabrina Petra Ramet
Sabrina Petra Ramet*
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University of Washington
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There are no differences between the Czech and Slovak governments’ views on the forms of the future coexistence and relations between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. Our positions are literally identical.

Vladimir Meciar, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic (August 1990)

Since our democratic revolution, the situation [in relations between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic] has never been as serious and precipitous as it is today.

Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic (September 1991)

On 9 June 1992 came the shattering announcement by newly elected Czech Republic Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus, that the Czechoslovak federation was no more. An interim (but trimmed) federal government was to be set up to preside over the hasty dismantlement of the 74-year old state. By 30 September, the Czechoslovak Republic was to be completely split in two. And by January 1993, the finances of state are supposed to be completely divided.

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I Eastern Europe Reconsidered
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue - Ethnopolitics in Poland , Spring 1994, pp. 99 - 117
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Copyright © 1994 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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