Suchergebnisse

Aus tschechischer Sicht + Aus westeuropäischer Sicht + Aus politischer Sicht + Analytisch + Deskriptiv

This Essay is intended to outline the legal developments in Czechoslovakia since the November 1989 revolution, which ended forty-one years of Communist domination. The new era, inaugurated by the revolution, began with a painstaking search for a political and constitutional model and for a strategy of socio-economic development that would make the country's transition to democracy and prosperity as smooth and painless as possible.

Human rights are articulable expressions of legal ideas that can be readily identified. The developments of the last thirty-five years have created a duality of sources from which fundamental rights of the individual derive. There are, on the one hand, national human rights. They derive from the constitution and the laws of each nation, from its traditions, values and other elements that make up what may be appropriately called the "national human rights culture." They are expressive of the specific needs of each society and indicate the purposes for which governments are created. They necessarily differ from one country to another. For example, Soviet legislation will never duplicate the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution nor can United States civil rights legislation be expected to comport with the Soviet Constitution. Despite these differences international human rights have emerged. They are a product of the universal human rights culture built on faith "in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small," and on the conviction that respect for the fundamental freedoms of the individual is an indispensable condition for peace. Because of these beliefs, governments have accepted the concept of universal human rights, agreed that they are appropriate for international concern, cooperated in defining them, assumed international obligations to respect them, and submitted to some international scrutiny as to their compliance with these obligations.

A hands-on approach to the privatization process in Eastern Europe, divided into the following categories:- Guidelines for Foreign Purchasers of State Enterprises - A Business Survival Guide for Getting Things Done in Kiev - Critical Challenges of Capital Formation - The Greenfield Approach to Privatization - Vouchers and their Practical Use - Detailed Analysis of the Particulars of the Privatization Procedures in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Hungary. Furthermore, Privatization in Eastern Europe includes a list of all privatization laws