... what the futures of these two countries would be. In January 1968, In Czechoslovakia, in the spring of 1968-later referred to as the "Prague Spring-- Alexander Dubcek, a leading Slovak Communist Party Member, was made president of Czechoslovakia and begun a new approach to governing the republic. He called it "socialism with a face- and he enacted a wave of reforms that would include ... would guarantee civil rights and most importantly it would lift the ban on censorship. These new reforms really affected the Czechoslovakians and on May 1 " a day the communist world traditionally celeb...

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... market under Mikhail Gorbachev. These political reforms eventually led to the liberalization in the Soviet Union thus limiting the far-reaching role of the communist party. Changes in the Soviet Union consequently caused other communist regimes in Eastern European countries like Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria to collapse. This overthrow destroyed the monopoly of communists over political decisions as ... many of their planned socialism projects and focused on private enterprises. The West's focus on market economies and privatization ultimately influenced other third world countrie...

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... . A recent poll indicated that only 39% of Czechs would currently vote to join the EU in contrast to 19% who would vote out-right against joining. With the Communist and Civic Democratic Party also voicing "Euro-skepticism" the political and popular support looks increasingly thin and with the Czech Republic now expecting to join June 2004 in time for the European Parliament ... job losses to immigrants rising by about 20%. A fourth loss to the EU is with regard to the European Commission's annual Regular Report 2001 which is primarily designed around post-communist candidate countries o...

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