The paper analyses the impact of Euro Crisis Law -- the legal instruments adopted at European or international level in reaction to the Eurozone crisis -- on the legal and constitutional structures in Slovakia. It shows how politically difficult it was for a small Member State economically below...

The paper analyses constitutional revision process in Slovakia taking into account recent constitutional changes that occurred since financial crisis of 2008. In the first part author describes forms of constitutional amendment procedure in theory and in practice that evolved in Slovakia. Second...

Most constitutional systems count with the eventualities of unexpected circumstances threatening the constitutional order. These constitutions allow a constitutional regime’s partial or complete transformation into a constitutional emergency. Before 2020, Slovakia had almost no experience with...

The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...

The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the contribution of the statistics multi-beneficiary programme to improvements in the performance of National Statistics Offices in the candidate countries relating to the production and dissemination of statistics in key areas (comparable with EU...

Although the Visegrád Four countries often defended the same or similar positions in the European Convention, their views differed on many important issues. This situation is likely to be repeated at the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference. This basically confirms the tendency that can be...

The aim of the review is to summarise the achievements of Phare Roma programmes in the five countries where integration of Roma minorities was specified as an Accession Partnership priority (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia) and to consider to what extent they have...

Phare support to SME development has mainly consisted of technical assistance and advisory services to national institutions, support to SME policy and legislative development and financial support for SME development. Progress has been made in tackling problems inherited from the past, as well...