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    Roma And Non Roma People

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    The Romani People commonly known as Roma, Gypsies or Travelers account for around 11 million people scattered across Europe today, mostly in the Eastern European states. They have been persecuted and discriminated against due to large cultural differences since their arrival to Europe. The post-1989 transition from communism in Eastern Europe created a huge ethnic underclass of Roma who by many measures such as political, social, and economic, have the lowest status of any ethnic group in Eastern

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    The Bismark Model

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    Veronika is a coworker of our editor, Nadiia. She was born and raised in the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic, also called Czechia, a country located in Central Europe, bordered by Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland. The Czech Republic joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. The health care system in the Czech Republic uses the Bismark Model. The Bismark model is a multi-payer system that has a mixture of private and public providers, this model allows more flexible spending on

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    Introduction Since the beginning of history, the world has passed through a significant number of conflicts and wars, each defending a position. The reasons are usually religion beliefs, territory acquisition, and the search of the increase of power. During these conflicts, victims that suffered the consequences, losing their shelter as an example, end up leaving that area and are consequently seen as refugees in their new living area. Refugee camps should make them adapt to the new country, supporting

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    Gypsies in the Czech Republic The Gypsies of the former Czechoslovakia have suffered ethnic marginalization dating back to their arrival in Eastern Europe over 700 years ago. The collapse of communism in Czechoslovakia, and other Eastern Europe countries created the necessary conditions for the ethnic mobilization of the Gypsies and other minorities. During communism minorities presence in Eastern Europe was not officially recognized. The transition from the socialist system to democracy

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    was the leader of Czechoslovakia in 1968. He was a communist, yet he wanted to transform Czechoslovakia into a democratic nation. He was born in Uhrovek, Slovakia on November 27th, 1921. His family moved to the Soviet Union in 1925. Dubček received an early education in Kirgiziya and became a loyal communist. In 1944, he moved back to Slovakia and secretly joined the Communist Party. After World War II, very loyal communists were appointed to high government posts. Moscow wanted all these countries

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    The EU and Saving Syrians from Despair Robert Fico, the Prime minister of Slovakia, claimed that “Enforced solidarity is an oxymoron”(Swidlicki). Although the European Union has made plans to have member nations take in Syrian refugees, some nations of the Eastern Bloc, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, have rejected this plan, thinking that it would lead to chaos in Europe. However, across most of Central and Northern Europe, especially in Germany, it is a very different story

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    Because it is not a large country like some others in Europe and is in the central part, Austria borders several countries. These bordering countries are Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Switzerland, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Austria belongs to the Alpine Mountain Region, and a small portion of the land starts the Hungarian Plain in the West. Only a small percentage is a part of this region. Other land is a part of the Danube Valley, where the Danube

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    The Czech Republic is located nearly in the center of Europe and was recently known as Czechoslovakia. The Czech Republic is bordered by Slovakia, Germany, Poland, and Austria. The Czech Republic was a part of Czechoslovakia until 1993 when it split into both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. With it being a fairly new country, one would assume that it is struggling to catch up to society economically, this is simply untrue, because the Czech Republic is one of the most economically stable countries

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    The Western Civilization

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    The study also revealed a corollary finding. Chapter 1 divulged that the Western Civilization is displaying a bias for oppositional responses. Since Antiquity, the West seems to see strategy as competitive in nature and often consider that the military is an inescapable means to resolve international issues. This bias contributes to explaining the surprising proposition that neither the European Union nor NATO seems willing to acknowledge that it develops a grand strategy. One can advance that

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    Romania’s Post Communism Accounting Practices and The Effects of Adapting IFRS for SMEs   Abstract Romania, located in southeastern European, was heavily influenced by the Russian Soviet Union as a socialist republic between 1947 and 1989. With becoming a capitalist country in 1989, its accounting practices began its transformation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Romania accounting practices post its revolution. The paper discusses three major accounting practice

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