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The bachelor thesis deals with selected tax systems of the European Union countries, namely the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Sweden. The main aim of the thesis is a comparative analysis of selected tax systems. The first part of the bachelor thesis is devoted to the theoretical knowledge of tax issues. In the second part, individual tax systems are characterized and the third part is based on the comparison of individual tax systems through selected macroeconomic indicators such as the tax mix, tax revenue, tax quota and, lastly, the size of the tax burden of the taxpayer.

The bachelor thesis titled The legal status of ombudsman in the Czech Republic, the Slovak Repubic and the Sweden analyzes the ombudsman institution in selcted countries and compares them afterwards. The work is divided into 5 chapters. The first chapter deals with the institution of ombudsman in general. The definitions, characteristics and important characteristics of ombudsman institutions in the world. The second, third and fourth chapter focuses on the institution of ombudsman in specific countries, in each country, this institution called otherwise. The fifth chapter compares the institutions in each country based on pre-selected criteria. The aim is to highlight the differences and compliance legislation in selected countries (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, the Kingdom of Sweden), depending on the political, social-economic, cultural and other conditions and perform their evaluation.

The bachelor thesis deals with the asylum policy in the European Union, respectively Hungary and the Slovak Republic during the refugee crisis in years 2015 and 2016. The first chapter as theoretical basis uses the definition of national interest of Petr Kratochvíl. It follows with definitions of the most commonly used terms in asylum policy and introduces the changes in asylum policy and migratory trends of Hungary and the Slovak Republic after the accession to the European Union and the Schengen area. On selected events the attitude towards the refugee crisis of the Hungarian and Slovak government is analyzed, and whether their intentions can be considered as national interest according to presented criteria. These selected events are the refusal to accept refugees under mandatory quotas, the referendum against the reception of asylum seekers and the states´ response to criticism of international organizations.

The work describes management of wood of Slovak republic, characterizes the current situation of forestry and wooden industry, policies and practices that this sector uses and that affect the foreign commerce with wood and wooden products of the country. This paper also analyses particular influences on the total amount and final structure of traded wood, as well as on the effectiveness of these transactions. It summarizes objectively the position of this commodity in Slovakia, the ability of exploitation of Slovak potential in the area of foreign trade with wood and finally, forecasts the possibility of next trends in this sector.

This bachelor thesis deals with acquisition of citizenship by foreigners in conditions of the Czech and Slovak Republics and comparison of approaches of both countries. The main emphasis is put on individual differences in the development and current state of legislation concerning citizenship, approach to dual citizenship, conditions and the process of acquiring citizenship by foreigners.

The bachelor thesis analyzes automotive industry in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in the period from 2005 to 2016. The economic crisis took place during this period and the Slovak government decided to react in 2009 with the introduction of scrapping program, however the scrapping program was never introduced in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis is to analyze sales of passenger cars in both countries in the period from 2005 to 2016. The thesis concludes that scrapping program in Slovakia in 2009 increased the demand for passenger cars, but in 2010 this demand decreased significantly. The thesis also concludes that the scrapping program has had a negative impact for domestic sales of passenger cars in the long run.

This diploma thesis deals with the competitiveness of automotive industry of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, therefore countries of the V4. The main aim of the thesis is to evaluate the mutual position and to identify differences amongst individual countries of the V4. Thus the theoretical part of the thesis deals with defining concept of competitiveness, its possibilities of measurement, competitive advantages, the role of state, industries and companies, last not least it defines concept of clusters. Furthermore, the practical part of the thesis defines individual automotive markets of the V4 countries throughout dislocation of main producers, structural composition of production and its gross value added. Subsequently, the comparative analyses of the V4 countries is lead with chosen indicators such as FDI, export and import, domestic and foreign value added, labour costs and wages, employment, productivity, production and its value and turnover, etc.

The thesis deals with the priorities of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the context of the challenges at the current period. The emphasis is placed on a sustainable asylum and migration policy and a single internal market. The thesis is devoted to the challenges that not only the Slovak Presidency but also the whole European Union had to face, based on the comparisons of the events since 2014, when the migration crisis became widely discussed in public sector.

This final thesis deals with the tax system of Slovakia. The main aim of the thesis is to capture the development of the tax reforms carried out in the Slovak Republic and the decription of the consequences of the resulting tax systems. The partial aim is the analysis of the Electronic Register of Sales. The first chapter defines the concept of tax reform and describes tax reforms in the world, then there are futher specified tax reforms of Czechoslovakia. The second chapter focuses on a big tax reform in Slovakia in 2004. The third chapter is devoted to the current tax system. The fourth chapter deals with the Electronic Register of Sales.

The diploma thesis is focused on identification and mutual comparison of Czech-British and Slovak-British cultural standards at work environment. The main goal of the thesis is to define British cultural standards from both sides, from the Czech one and the Slovak one, and then to compare, whether the information from qualitative research corresponds with theoretical assumptions. The next goal is to find out how much different is the view on this topic from the Czech and from the Slovak perspective, if it is different. At the end of the thesis will be proposed a few suggestions, how Czech and Slovak should prepare for a longer staying in the United Kingdom in order to avoid possible cultural misunderstandings.

This bachelor thesis focuses on communication and media factor of Slovak presidency in the Council of the European Union which took place in the second half of 2017. The aim of the thesis is to approach communication and media aspect in detail, review Slovak organisational and presentation ambitions and provide a perception of Slovakia in this role. The thesis partly deals with public diplomacy of Slovak Republic. It concerns branding strategy adopted before the presidency was held in order to improve image of the country abroad. The accomplished presentation results are evaluated at the end, as well as the communication with domestic and foreign media.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to investigate and analyze the position and influence of the automotive industry on the selected macroeconomic indicators of economy of the Slovak Republic. This work consists of two parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part focuses on the position and significance of the automotive industry for the Slovak economy along with the characterization of selected macroeconomic indicators. In the practical part, I mean specific macroeconomic indicators (GDP, unemployment, foreign trade), which analyze the data obtained from the Slovak Statistical Office and EUROSTAT. Consequently, I examine the importance of automotive production in Slovakia through changes in the macroeconomic indicators in a given time period.

Year by year there is a growing importance of tertiary education, as high quality university system and high percentage of population with tertiary education represent the basic prerequisite for the development of the country. This bachelor thesis compares two completely different systems of financing tertiary education in Australia and Slovak republic. Slovak education system is financed by public sector subsidies in comparison to Australian education system which is based on deferred payment of tuition fees. The special focus is on advantages and disadvantages of successful financing of tertiary education in Australia. The main goal is to provide suitable recommendations for implementation of advantageous features of higher education financing in Australia for Slovak republic. The key advantages are considered to be: reducing the burden on public budgets with higher focus on private sector, better education quality and reducing the deliberate prolongation of study stay. Implementation of some features from Australia in Slovakia could mean high administrative costs and it requires proper understanding of current economic situation in Slovakia. Helping tools for successful university reform consist of optimization of university tuition fees and decreased amount of field of studies, which require paying university tuition fees.

The aim of this Master´s thesis is to find out whether there is a relation (mainly) between economic factors and government popularity in Slovakia, based on data from the period 2004-2016. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part describes theoretical aspects of government popularity function and historical overview of past government cabinets in Slovakia. The second part is practical, that explains a methodology used in modelling and results of modelling itself. At the end of this thesis, there is final summary of attained results.

Regional policy is becoming one of the strategic priorities of the European Union after its extension. The main tools of the policy are subsidies for less advanced regions in EU. This work aims to evaluate the Regional operational programme in the Košice region during the programming period 2007 to 2013. In the theoretical part author describes the process of forming the European Union, the overall characteristics specified by EU funds and gives basic information on Slovak Republic and Košice Region. The analytical section is dedicated to the characteristics of the Regional operational program. This work compares the individual priority axes of the operational program and the successful utilization of the allocation. For an objective assessment Košice region is compared with other regions of the Slovak Republic at the level of priority axis. Based on the analysis the author reviewed the regional operational programme in the Košice region as successful with space for improvement in the fulfilment of allocations

This thesis deals with the analysis of business cooperation between the Slovak Republic and France including cultural and business particularities of both countries. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter gives general information about France. The second chapter is focused on economic characteristics of France. The third chapter provides an analysis of foreign trade of both countries in terms of territorial and commodity and analysis of their mutual business cooperation . The fourth chapter describes cultural specifics and business customs of France and Slovakia.

This work aims to analyse the development of banking systems in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic which followed after the splitting from the former Czechoslovakia. The theoretical part of the work describes the initial situation that is the centrally planned economy and the central banking in Czechoslovakia. Furthermore, the research methods on the basis of which the success of transformation in both countries will be compared are stated. The practical part is devoted to banking after 1989. First, it analyses the joint office of the states between the years 1989 - 1992. Further, it compares the two banking systems in the course of 1990s according to specified criteria, up to the beginning of the new millennium when the privatization of the largest banking institutions was finalized. In the end, we managed to verify the hypothesis that the Czech banking transformation has been more successful than the Slovak one.

This Bachelors thesis is devoted to the analysis of unemployment in the Czech Republic and Slovakia between years 1994 and 2015. The aim of the thesis is to analyze and compare the development of unemployment between the countries, and furthermore to focus comparison onto unemployment of selected risk groups. The theoretical part focuses on defining basic approaches dealing with the issue. Moreover, it describes the basic concepts of unemployment and sets out not only the fundamental factors affecting unemployment, but also the consequences of unemployment. In the practical part is first analyzed unemployment in the period 1994-2015 in individual countries. Consequently, it delivers comparison of each country, not only in terms of general unemployment rate, which is lower in Czech Republic than in Slovakia, but also in terms of selected risk groups of unemployed people, which shows different values in both countries. Finally, is provided a discussion of economic and political measures to tackle unemployment.

The thesis deals with the issue of nuclear energy. Within thesis we focus on attitude of Germany, Japan, Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. We assess their energy policy and transition to renewable energy. The first chapter deals with importance of nuclear energy in European Union. The second chapter is focused on new opportunities in the energy sector and concept of smart cities. The third chapter analyzes the energy of Japan, the fourth chapter the energy of Germany and the fifth chapter is focused on energy of Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

The diploma thesis focuses on the concept of nation branding in foreign policy in general but especially in the context of two Central European countries - the Czech and Slovak Republic. It addresses the question of whether this relatively young discipline is a part of their foreign policy efforts and whether their approach to this tool vary. The comparison is performed through a view on the previous steps and development of the agenda, on the institutional framework and analyses of their nation brands. Nation brand analyses are performed by applying the theoretical apparatus of the concept of image and identity. The image analyses cover assessing the NBI and the CBI indexes, complemented by foreign media analyses and SWOT analyses. The analyses of brand identities are performed through a view on the identity components on the visual level and on the level of substance.

The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze the way of destination management support in conditions of Slovakia, mainly in connection with Act No. 91/2010 Z. z. of the tourism support and its subsequent amendments. First part of the thesis is focused on the destination characterization, the topic of tourism destination management and the tourism organization in the particular destination. Theoretical part also deals with a topic of development and organization of tourism in Slovakia. Practical part introduces the Act No. 91/2010 Z. z. of the tourism support and its subsequent amendments in detail. Subsequently, the consequences of adopting the act in the particular regions are analyzed. The final part of the thesis consists of analysis and evaluation of the questionnaire survey, whose aim was to determine the influence of the adopting the act on the development and organization of tourism in particular regions.

The aim of my Bachelor thesis is to analyze the development of the labor market and the labor market policy in the Czech and Slovak republic since the establishment of both states and their comparison in the context of the development of the main macroeconomic indicators. The main terms that are related to the labor market, unemployment and the labor market policy are explained in the theoretical part. In the practical part I analyze economic situation, the labor market development and the development of the labor market policy in both countries. This analysis is also supplied with development of other important economical, demographical, political and other events that had an impact on the examined indicators and phenomenon. The conclusion of this work compares the development in both countries based on summaries of the previous findings.

Thesis deals with examination, comparison and analysis of the evolution of macroeconomic indicators in the period affected by the economic crisis of 2007-2014. The work is divided into two integrated parts. The first part is a theoretical part of the work. It is an explanation of concepts, methodologies and the actual characteristics of selected indicators. The second - practical part is focused on specific indicators (unemployment, inflation, GDP), which are described in the analysis of the data from the Czech Statistical Office, Slovak Statistical Office and the EUROSTAT. for the reference years and the potential impact on the value of the economic crisis. The last part of the practical section evaluates and compares the measured individual facts and their impacts on the economies of both countries.

The aim of this bachelor thesis was to provide view of evolution and possible changes in death rate in Czech and Slovak Republic twenty years after separation. In thesis, mostly data from life tables and demographic annuals provided by EUROSTAT are used. Firstly are defined and explained basic indicators and methods, which are used to com-pare death rates across time and space. Then ways of data acquisition that are necessary for calculation these indicators and methods are explained. Then is explained death rate and eve-rything connected with this term. In next part evolution of population and age structure is described. After that the thesis continues with death rate at the beginning of life, quality of health care and characteristic of time series, within which specific death rates are counted as well. Next the thesis includes indicators of life expectancy with prediction of future progres-sion of life expectancy in Czech and Slovak Republic. Within prediction regression line was used. Results were then compared to projection of life expectancy provided by EUROSTAT. In the end of thesis we can find total evaluation of progression of both populations within 20 years from separation of Czechoslovakia. In thesis is used number of charts and tables, in which is clearly illustrated particular phenomenon within time interval. With help of these charts and tables, which were for maxi-mal objectivity constructed using data from EUROSTAT only, comments are made for par-ticular phenomena in Czech and Slovak Republic.

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyse external economic balance of Slovak Republic by balance of payments, investment position and external debt in years 2005-2015. Introductory chapter consists of theoretical resources which are inevitable for better understanding. Practical part is divided into two chapters. Previous findings help to evaluate the balance of payment of Slovakia in the first practical part. It focuses on the development of particular accounts and their items and looks into causes of this development. The second part contains an analysis of Slovak external relationships with the rest of the world through cumulative balances, international investment position and external debt.

After the split of Czechoslovakia, the bankruptcy law in both countries evolved their own way. The original Act No. 328/1991 Coll. Bankruptcy and Settlement in the Czech Republic and its equivalent form in the Slovak Republic was necessary due to changing economic and political situation to change with new regulations. In the Slovak Republic in 2006, the Act no. 7/2005 Coll. Bankruptcy and Restructuring and two years later, in the Czech Republic Act No. 182/2006 Coll. Bankruptcy and Settlement came into force. The aim of this thesis is the comparison of the bankruptcy law in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It compares individual legal adjustments with regard to their pros and cons. The Master thesis is based on statistical data on bankruptcy proceedings, explaining the reasons for the different developments in individual countries. The main focus of thesis is in reorganization and debt relief. The difference in debt relief of each country is explained in case study. Part of the work is also a practical example of the reorganization of the selected company.

This bachelor thesis focuses on the export promotion system in Slovak Republic. The first chapter offers a theoretical approach to international trade, mainly with respect to its importance and benefits for countries. Later, the chapter also provides an analysis of the foreign trade of the Slovak Republic. In the second part, the thesis deals with the institutional framework for export promotion in Slovakia as well as its export promotion strategy for the 2014-2020 period, while the main attention is given to its principles, goals and instruments. At the end, the chapter also offers an assessment of the progress made towards the fulfilment of the goals in 2014. The final part of the thesis discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the export promotion system in Slovakia based upon a comparison with other selected member states of the EU.

Slovak Republic adopted Euro at first of January 2009. Advantages and disadvantages of adopting Euro in Slovak Republic are compared in this bachelor's thesis. Work is divided into three chapters. In first chapter, problematic and historic development of integration processes after WW2 are introduced. Preparations for Euro adoption in Slovak Republic and Maastrichts convergence criteria observance are stated in chapter two. In the last chapter each advantages and disadvantages are summarized. This work finds, that adoption of Euro was for Slovak Republic convenient, mainly for foreign trade.

This thesis analyzes the process of selected macroeconomic indicators of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic between years 2006 and 2012. In this period of time the global financial crises began and also the Slovak Republic adopted the euro currency and gave up of the ability to use the monetary policy. The thesis compares the condition of the economy of Slovakia and the economy of the Czech Republic before the crises, during the crises and in the following years and also tries to find the impact of the euro currency on the economy of Slovakia. At the end of the research I reached the conclusion, that the Slovak Republic was more affected by the crises in 2009 than the Czech Republic, because of the negative impact of the euro. The euro had neither positive nor negative impact in the following years on the economy of Slovakia.

This Bachelor thesis provides us with information about the implementation of the euro in the Slovak Republic with stress on entrepreneurial non-financial sector. The first goal of the thesis is to gather up and consequently evaluate the theoretical findings connected with the stated topic. The second goal is to verify the theoretical findings based on information gathered from a group of respondents to an online questionnaire. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is focused on the legislature preparation and the fulfillment of the Maastricht convergence criteria. The rest of the thesis deals with the entrepreneurial sector. The purpose of the second chapter is to classify the entrepreneurial sector and analyse the entrepreneurial environment via international institutions and indexes. Responsibilities of entrepreneurial subjects connected with implementation of the euro are also included in the second chapter. The third chapter examines the impacts of the euro on the entrepreneurial sector by comparing estimations from the period in which Slovak crown was used as the national currency with figures after 2009. The last and practical oriented chapter is based on my own research.

The aim of my bachelor's degree study is an analysis of the unemployment rates in the Czech and Slovak Republics. It is followed by a comparison which includes an outline of reasons of these developments. The first part includes explanations of terms connected with the macroeconomic index, and an evaluation of the up-to-date situations in the two countries. The second, practical part, includes the description of the initial conditions before launching the process of transformation, and also the developments in the two states under review. The last part of the study is a comparison of the developments of the unemployment rates in the Czech and Slovak Republics. It also deals with the possible causes of the two countries' different scenarios.

The aim of this thesis is to identify and more closely analyse Italian cultural standards, specifically from the perspective of Czechs and Slovaks, who came to a closer and more extended contact with the Italian culture. Identification of these standards was based on in-depth personal interviews and the theoretical part of this thesis. This part is focused on terms such as culture, intercultural communication, culture shock, cultural dimensions and standards. The practical part of this work is dedicated to the research itself and its evaluation as well as Italy per se, its history, culture, economy or demography. This work can also serve anyone in closer personal of professional contact with this culture.

Bachelor thesis deals with university study exchange stays as an aspect of international relations between USA and Slovak republic. The aim of the thesis is to find out what Slovak republic does and could do to attract more students from United States to study at Slovak universities. The thesis starts with an explanation of public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy and then continues with characterization of some of their instruments. One of the cultural diplomacy instruments are university study exchange stays, which this bachelor thesis is built on. Second chapter deals with the Slovak policy related to foreign students, the circumstances of their acceptance and the impact of migration of foreign students on Slovakia. At the end of second chapter there is a conversation with two American students studying in Slovakia. Third chapter is focused mainly on arrangements, which could be reasons for higher interest of American students to study in Slovakia. In the end of bachelor thesis there are mentioned methods of promotion of Slovak universities abroad and there is also appointed number of options of financial scholarships.

This bachelor thesis focuses on the comparison of Czech-German and Slovak-German relations at the beginning of the 21st century. Its theoretical part separately outlines Czech-German and Slovak-German relations respectively between the years 2000 and 2014. The practical part offers a comparison of both of the bilateral relations within the mentioned period. This thesis aims to compare the intensity of recent Czech-German and Slovak-German relations on the political, economic and cultural level, evaluate them while assessing, which of the two countries Czech Republic and Slovak Republic is currently a more important partner for the Federal Republic of Germany.

Unemployment is one of the major economic and social problems of our time. The bachelor thesis compares unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics. The work consists of the theoretical and an analytical part. In the theoretical part are characterized both countries, unemployment and some indicators, such as the level of economic activity and unemployment. The analytical part compares the countries in different aspects of using data from the Czech Statistical Office, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Slovak Statistical Office and the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family. In some analyzes this work takes into consideration the age structure, gender, education level and geography. The analysis uses appropriate statistical methods. This bachelor thesis provides a comprehensive overview of unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Master's Thesis focuses on development of unemployment in countries of Central Europe, specifically on example of Czech and Slovak republic. Aim of Master's Thesis is to analyse and name the causes of unemployment in Czech and Slovak republic, esprecially during the period after the year 1993, when these two countries separated. First, theoretical part describes the reasons and different kinds of unemployment. Included are also sociological, psychological and health aspects. Methodological part describes the mothods used for Master's Thesis processing. Naming and comparison of different unemployment reasons in Czech and Slovek republic are creating the content of practical part of this Master's Thesis.

This thesis deals with introducing operational programs in Czech and Slovak Rebublics in the past as well as in the present. The introductory section is focused on the past period 2007-2013 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where I describe existing operating programmes, their distribution according to individual objectives and their short characteristic. In the following section I focus on the present period 2014-2020. In this part I mention changes in comparing to previous period, focusing on the Partnership Agreement. I also deal with the Operational Program Human Resources and Employment in the Czech Republic for the period 2007-2013 and with the Operational Program Employment in the Czech Republic for the period 2014-2020. At the end of my thesis I deal with the Operational Program Employment and Social Inclusion in Slovakia for the period 2007-2013 and with the Operational Program Human Resources, Employment and Inclusion in Slovakia for the 2014-2020 period. In the last part of my thesis I made some charts with brief and summery comparisions which are focused on operational programs for development of human resources and employment in the Czech republic and Slovakia in the past and in the Czech republic and Slovakia in the present.

This thesis analyzes the state support of the cultural and creative industries in selected post-communist countries, now the Visegrad Group. The first part is devoted to the impact of the totalitarian regime on culture and cultural policy, economic transformation and current economic situation of individual countries with emphasis on chracteristics of the cultural and creative industries concept. The main part of the thesis deals with the issues of culture policy perspective of each state including the opportunities available under EU funds. The final section presents the summary of a comparative analysis along with pros and cons of the models in all countries.

This thesis is focused on the comparison of the accounting and tax aspects of a limited liability company, which is the most common type of business company in the Czech and the Slovak Republic. Introductory chapters are devoted to a brief comparison of the business environment, characteristics of a limited liability company and the possibilities of its establishment in both countries. The main part of the thesis describes and compares the accounting regulation and analyzes the financial statements. The last part deals with the tax aspects, especially corporate income tax and health and social security.

In my Bachelor's thesis I am focusing on foreign trade between the Russian Federation and the Slovak Republic. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first chapter, contains the most important macroeconomic indicators of the both countries. The second and the third chapter independently deal with foreign trade of the countries concerned. Moreover, these sections discuss the territorial and commodity structure. The last chapter concentrates on the European Union foreign trade policy and its impacts on trade with the countries outside the European Union. This part of the thesis includes the detailed description of foreign trade relationships between Russia and Slovakia as well as the Slovak pro-export policy. The aim of this work is to point out how foreign trade between these two countries have changed in the last several years, but in particular after Slovakia's accession to the European Union, and then during and after the financial crisis.

The thesis is focused on comparison of tax systems between Czech republic and Slovak republic in the years 2008 to 2012. In theoretical part, individual taxes in both countries are characterized focusing on evolution in the years 2008 to 2012. Tax systems are compared in the analytical part of thesis using selected indicators, with emphasis on the competitiveness of countries and from the perspective of business entities and in terms of the impact on employment.

The topic of my master thesis is the comparison of Czech and Slovak labour law. The goal of the paperwork is to compare structure and of content Czech and Slovak labour code, describe the most significant differences in chosen parts and analyse rights and obligations of employees and employers in both countries. At first the basic concept of labour law, his functions and position in legal system are defined. It continues with description of the history of labour law with focus on development of legislation after separation of the Czechoslovak Republic. Thesis analyses main three instituts of Czech and Slovak labour code: commencement of an employment relationship, his termination including financial and others entitlement of employees and agreements of work performed outside an employment relationship. The conclusion containts the partial summaries with emphasis on the biggest differences and evaluation of the hypotesis given at the beginning of the work.

Bachelor's work compares the social systems of the two close countries, the Czech and the Slovak Republic. It describes and discusses the functioning of social security in the Czech Republic and in the Slovak Republic, first individually and then both systems compares in terms of the legislation, organization, financing, participation in the system and the provision of benefits. It is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter deals with the theoretical background and historical evolution of social security. The second and third chapter analyzes social security from the perspective of the individual states, and the fourth, the last chapter compares and summarizes the common and different features of the social security of those two states.

Corruption as a contemporary phenomenon attracts attention of laymen but also experts who are trying to define this notion on the basis of various criterions. The aim of this thesis is to theoretically define corruption as the attendant phenomenon of the current society and to analyze methods of its solution. The studied country is Slovak republic which as a post-communist country shows some specifics. There are many proposed ways how to solve the problem of corruption however this thesis concerns itself primarily with the role of non-government organizations and their ability to actually influence political acts concerned with restricting of corruption possibilities. The intense cooperation among these non-government organizations and especially their cooperation with the government is crucial in order to be able to influence the political agenda. Therefore this thesis deals with this non-government organizations -- government relationship as well.

The aim of this Bachelor Thesis is to describe and compare the current manifestations of Euroscepticism within the political elites and the citizens of the Czech and Slovak Republic, with specific regard to important milestones of European integration. The text is divided into three chapters. The first chapter focuses on conceptual approaches, which analyze the attitudes of political parties towards the EU and European integration. The second chapter discusses the classification of the various political parties, grouping them according to Petr Kanioks scale system of either euroscepticism, eurogovernmentalism or europeanists. The final chapter concentrates on the reasons which led political parties to uphold a negative stance towards integration, due to either ideological, or tactical-strategic grounds. The objective of the Thesis is to find out how similarly the Czech and Slovak Republics see European integration, and whether euroscepticism explains an ideological, or tactical-strategic stance.

This thesis deals with the realization of inflation targeting in the Slovak and the Czech Republic, and compares successfulness in fulfilling of inflation target. It is divided into three chapters. The first chapter characterizes monetary policy in general and two transmission mechanisms used in both countries. The next chapter is concerned with the practical application of monetary transmission mechanism after the monetary separation. Problems connected with the realization of this monetary policy regime that led to the change in the transmission mechanism in both central banks are also mentioned. In the last chapter there is the comparison of conditions in Slovakia and the Czech Republic during the implementation and application inflation targeting. We also compare trend in the actual and target inflation rate, and describe changes in the key interest rates of both national banks as a result of it.

The subject of this thesis is regulation of lobbying in the countries of the Visegrad Group (V4) -- specifically statutory regulation of lobbying. The work gives a comprehensive overview of the development of regulation of lobbying in V4 member states from the very beginning until now. Main aim is to answer questions related to lobbying such as: "is there a lobbying regulation in V4 members", "what is the quality of that regulation" and "is there any common signs shared across the national regulation of lobbying". To achieve the desired objective thesis uses descriptive, comparative and analytical methods. Thesis consists of two main logical units, which are divided into five chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. The first unit contains three introductory chapters. This section is devoted to the history of lobbying, the definition of lobbying and theoretical concepts of regulation of lobbying. The second unit is completely dedicated to the legal regulation of lobbying in the V4 countries. Part of this unit is also the final comparison and analysis of the legal regulation of lobbying in these countries and answers to questions mentioned in the introduction.

The subject of this thesis is a description of the Integrated information Treasury System and detailed description of the accounting reform of public finances in the Czech Republic, effective from 1 January 2010. The work is focused on the accounting state and local governments. The main part is devoted to changes in accounting rules, described in detail the issue of depreciation, reserves, transfers and accruals. The last chapter concerns the reform of public finances in the Slovak Republic.

The master thesis deals with the topic of promotion of Slovak republic in the tourism industry. Its goal is to analyze the activities of Slovak tourist board from 2008 to 2013 in domestic and incoming tourism, including the detached offices abroad and at home. Subsequently it aims to come up with ideas that could lead to potential improvement of the situation in the future, making Slovak republic more visible as a final destination in the international tourism, increasing incoming tourism and supporting domestic tourism.

Presented work deals with the issues of bankruptcies in pre-selected countries: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Serbia and Croatia, both from an economic and legal viewpoint. First four chapters are devoted to more detailed analysis of insolvency (bankruptcy) laws of each country with regard to their development and current practice. At the end of each chapter is described a current "bankruptcy situation" on the markets of individual economies. The sixth chapter deals with bankruptcies in Europe (Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe). Part of this chapter is also devoted to the development of selected economies in terms of their GDP. The seventh chapter highlights the economic aspects of bankruptcy and the eighth chapter analyzes the data obtained. The work focuses only on corporate bankruptcies and is completed with appropriate graphs and tables both in the text and in the appendices.