Deputy state secy: Owing to govt's consistent family support in past ten years, number of children Hungarian families raising returned to pre-1995 levels.
The costly and long road to a modern state
The revolutionary political changes in the Eastern Bloc at the beginning of the 1990s brought about a threefold transformation in the Republic of Slovakia: 1. From a totalitarian regime to a liberal democratic regime; 2. From a state within a federation to a nation-state; and 3. From a centrally-planned economy to a market economy. The Slovak Republic was not prepared for any of these changes. Yet in the case of the first at least, which seemed the simplest, there were sufficiently precise, internationally-defined goals along with in some cases methods for implementing them. There was, in particular, support from among broad layers of the population.