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  Slovakia - Search View - MSN Encarta
Slovakia, landlocked republic in central Europe, bounded on the northwest by the Czech Republic, on the north by Poland, on the east by Ukraine, on the south by Hungary, and on the southwest by Austria.
Southwestern Slovakia is dominated by the Danubian Lowlands, a fertile region that extends to the Danube River on the Hungarian border.
The president is responsible for naming the prime minister to head the government; the prime minister is typically the leader of the party with the majority of seats in parliament.
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 Prime Minister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
A prime minister is the chief member of the cabinet in a parliamentary system of government or alternatively an official in a presidential system or semi-presidential system whose duty is to execute the of the President and manage the civil service.
Kåre Willoch Prime Minister of Norway 1981 - 1986
Prime Ministers can be found in both monarchies (as is the case in the United Kingdom Norway and Japan) and in republics where the head of state is elected or unelected official with varying degrees real power.
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 The Definitive Guide to Prime Minister XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Prime Minister is often, but not always, a member of parliament and is expected with other ministers to ensure the passage of bills through the legislature.
While the modern office of Prime Minister developed in the UK the first actual usage of the word Prime Minister or Premiere Minstre was used by Cardinal Richelieu, when, in 1624 he was named to head the royal council as prime minister of France.
Contrary to popular and journalistic belief, most prime ministers in parliamentary systems are not appointed for a specific term of office and in effect may remain in power through a number of elections and parliaments.
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 List of Prime Ministers of Slovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prime Minister of autonomous Slovakia (1938 – 1939; within Czechoslovakia)
Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic [March 1990 - 1992 called Slovak Republic] (1969 – 1992; within Czechoslovakia)
Prime Minister of Slovakia (since 1993; independent Slovakia)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Slovakia   (622 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Czechoslovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It consisted of the present-day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and (till 1939) Carpatho-Ukraine (Ruthenia).
After the Munich Agreement of 1938, Hitler‘s troops invaded the ethnic-German border regions of Bohemia and Moravia, Hungary received southern Slovakia, and Slovakia and Ruthenia received an autonomous status for a while.
In 1992, the federal parliament decided to split the country in the Czech Republic and Slovakia as of January 1 1993.
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 List of Prime Ministers of Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic
List of rulers of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
This page was last modified 00:20, 28 July 2006.
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 Politics of Slovenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janez Drnovšek of the center-left Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia (LDS) was reelected Prime Minister in the October 15, 2000 parliamentary elections.
Following National Assembly elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of a majority coalition is usually nominated to become prime minister by the president and elected by the National Assembly.
The Council of Ministers is nominated by the prime minister and elected by the National Assembly.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Slovenia   (1425 words)

  
 Chronology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
May 13, 1993: Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar says that his government is ready to lift restrictions on the rights of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia in accordance with the Council of Europe's demands.
Slovakia agrees to a clause calling for "appropriate laws or autonomous authorities" in areas where the country's ethnic Hungarians constitute a majority.
The Minister said she did not think her appearance was a provocation and that she was only adhering to the law that required the official reports be only in Slovak.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/slvhungchro.htm   (8238 words)

  
 McNair Paper 39 - Chapter 8
Slovakia and Hungary also agreed on 7 April 1993 to refer the problem of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Dam on the Danube to the International Court of Justice in the Hague for arbitration.
Note 10 Defense Minister Kanis noted that the new revised Slovak Defense Doctrine placed greater emphasis on developing closer relations with European and transatlantic security structures; it stressed the WEU's Associated Partnership programNote 11 and clearly stated that the fundamental orientation of Slovakia was to obtain full NATO membership.
Note 14 Then Defense Minister Kanis announced that the defense ministry and the Army High Command (to be renamed the General Staff) would be restructured and significantly reduced in size to prevent overlap and inefficiency.
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 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
Included are the prime minister, the two first deputy prime ministers, and the ministers for interior, defense, foreign affairs, economy, finance, and state property.
Prime Minister Primakov appeared to suggest that the IMF would have to take the blame for any actions his government might take if the next $4.3 billion tranche from the IMF is not forthcoming.
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Vojislav Seselj said in Belgrade on 1 October that Western countries are manipulating the reports of atrocities in Kosova to justify military attacks on Serbia.
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 polistru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Slovakia had to pass through the dark times of Mecíar and his semi-authoritarian regime before having its own “revolution of catching up” in 1998.
The Prime Minister of the Slovak republic - MikulᚠDZURINDA
Prime Minister Dzurinda said that the new cabinet is “ready to lead Slovakia into NATO and the EU.” Dzurinda heads the coalition formed by his party, the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union, and the Hungarian Coalition Party, the Christian Democratic Movement, and the Alliance for New Citizens.
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 Slovakia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Meciar’s ministers did not reply and we had to wait for political change in 1998.
Actually in 2000 we have submitted the proposal again to all committees of the parliament, to several ministers concernign the social and familly law, and representatives of political parties.
But the Christian Democrats, triumphant after the approval of a treaty between Slovakia and the Vatican last week, maintained that the recent treaty pledged each side to protect monogamous heterosexual marriages as "the basis of a healthy society".
www.ilga.info /Information/Legal_survey/europe/slovakia.htm   (1335 words)

  
 [ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
Welfare Minister Andrejs Pozarnovs proposed to the government on 19 April that the minimum monthly wage should be increased from the current 60 lats ($95) to 80 lats, LETA reported.
The defense ministers of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Jozef Stank and Jaroslav Tvrdik, respectively, signed an agreement in Bratislava on 21 April allowing Slovakia access to the archives of the former Czechoslovak counterintelligence, defense intelligence, and army intelligence files, CTK reported, citing Czech radio.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a gathering of FIDESZ supporters after the returns: "We have won the second round, but we are not entirely happy.
www.rferl.org /newsline/2002/04/3-CEE/cee-220402.asp?po=y   (2351 words)

  
 ITALY : Encyclopedia Entry
Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the Fascist Party.
Romano Prodi is the Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri ("President of the Ministers Council"), the equivalent of Prime Minister of the Italian Government.
The 1948 Constitution of Italy established a bicameral parliament (Parlamento), consisting of a Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) and a Senate (Senato della Repubblica), a separate judiciary, and an executive branch composed of a Council of Ministers (cabinet) (Consiglio dei ministri), headed by the prime minister (Presidente del consiglio dei ministri).
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Speaking in Moscow on 19 April, Abkhaz Prime Minister Anri Djergenia invited international experts to travel to Abkhazia to determine whether or not the Georgian claims of an Abkhaz troop buildup in Kodori are true, Caucasus Press reported.
Former Agriculture Minister Ivan Kyrylenko was elected a Verkhovna Rada deputy and preferred the parliament to the government.
The ministers discussed a possible meeting of their prime ministers when the Council of Baltic Sea States meets on 10 June in St. Petersburg, as well as further preparations for Ivanov's visit to Estonia that will probably take place in the second half of the year.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/rferl/2002/02-04-22.rferl   (8673 words)

  
 Secretary of Commerce Evans Visits Slovakia [February 28, 2003]
Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic Mikulas Dzurinda
Last year Slovakia was visited by several groups of entrepreneurs and we will continue with this kind of activity.
It means that those were Ministers of Finance or Deputy Prime Ministers for Economy from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary.
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 Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
The prime minister and cabinet play the central role in the political process, while the president performs some governmental functions in addition to ceremonial duties.
The president has the power to declare war and to conclude agreements of peace, alliance, and participate in international organizations; upon the request of the government a three-fifths parliamentary majority is required to ratify such actions, agreements, or treaties.
The cabinet includes the heads of all executive ministries, appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister.
www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Politics_of_Greece_.html   (1550 words)

  
 CER | Ukraine: New prime minister elected
This became possible even without support of the Communists, the largest faction of Ukrainian parliament, whose votes are often decisive as was the case when the former prime minister Viktor Yushchenko was voted out on 26 April.
According to the decree the state secretary of the Cabinet of Ministers, state secretaries of ministers and their deputies are appointed by the president for the whole term of his office (five years).
The prime minister, the first deputy prime minister, prime ministers and ministers become political figures.
www.ce-review.org /01/20/ukrainenews20.html   (725 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Icelanders Take Anti Iraq War Campaign to U.S.
Prime Minister Halldor Asgrimsson and Oddsson, both seen by analysts as staunch allies of President Bush, have come under fire for signing up Iceland as a coalition partner without consulting parliament.
Washington now focuses instead on a list of 28 nations with forces in Iraq, known as the multi-national forces list.
The new list, maintained by the State Department, contains: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
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 The Benes Decrees, Property Restitution, and the Hungarian Tragedy - AHF, founded 1906
This is 10.8% of the Slovak Republic's population of 5,353,000 as estimated from a 1991 census and country population review from the UN.
The Hungarians who lived in what is now Slovakia and Trans-Carpathian Ukraine (which was given to Stalin by a grateful Benes in 1945) were more than one million strong in 1910.
Newly Elected Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it well: "The borders of the Hungarian nation and the Hungarian State do not coincide." This is true, as witness the fact that fully one-third of all Hungarians are minorities in neighbouring countries, most just on the far side of the border.
www.americanhungarianfederation.org /news_benesdecrees.htm   (3591 words)

  
 Ask Us A Question   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
While the modern office of Prime Minister developed in the UK the first actual usage of the word Prime Minister or Premier Ministre was used by Cardinal Richelieu, when, in 1624 he was named to head the royal council as prime minister of France.
Not every prime minister fits exclusively into either category: Eamon de Valera, though a strong personality, was only interested in controlling some of his government's agenda (usually constitutional matters and Anglo-Irish affairs), and allowed large areas to decided by his colleagues.
Though superficially a chief (and called "the Chief" [the literal translation of Taoiseach] by his colleagues) historians see him as more of a chairman, particularly in later governments.
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 NewsFromRussia.Com Japanese ministers criticize Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
Hungary and Slovakia signed a letter of intent Tuesday to build two new bridges along a river separating the two countries.
The Dutch development minister visited Kosovo Tuesday to discuss the private business sector in the disputed U.N.- run province as part of a plan to promote Dutch investments in the Balkans.
Egypt is trying to defuse tension between the United States and Syria, the Egyptian foreign minister said Tuesday, days before the appearance of a U.N. report that might turn the world spotlight on Syria.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- List of dignitaries planning to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral at the ...
List of dignitaries planning to attend Pope John Paul II's funeral at the Vatican
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Secretary General Terry Davis, Daniel Rotfeld, chairman of committee of ministers, Rene van der Linden, chairman of Parliamentary Assembly, Giovanni di Stasi, chairman council's body overseeing local authorities
ROMANIA: President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, Metropolitan Daniel of Romanian Orthodox Church
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 Johnson's Russia List #5118 - February 26, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Communists' main rival, Prime Minister Braghis's alliance of centrist
In Beijing the delegation was received by Shi Guangsheng, minister of foreign
eight prime ministers in Russia, and all of them are either former
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