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7. Important recent events
September 2002
The Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKU) leads a coalition of centre-right parties to victory in the parliamentary election, forming one of the most pro reform administrations in the region.
November-December 2002
Slovakia is invited to join NATO and the EU in mid-2004.
May 2003
In a referendum, Slovak voters approve the country.s admission to the EU.
March 2004
Slovakia, together with six other central and east European countries, officially
joins NATO.
April 2004
Ivan Gasparovic is elected as Slovakia!s third president, succeeding Rudolf Schuster.
May 2004
Slovakia and nine other countries join the EU.
May 2005
Slovakia ratifies the EU.s constitutional treaty by parliamentary vote.
February 2006
Mikulas Dzurinda, the prime minister, calls an early election, to be held in June.
June-August 2006
Smer-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) wins the general election and subsequently forms
a coalition with the People!s Party-Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (LS-HZDS),
and the far-right Slovak National Party (SNS). Ethnic tensions resurface, including an alleged (and as yet unresolved) assault on an ethnic Hungarian student in Nitra
(western Slovakia).
October 2006
Smer-SD is excluded from the Party of European Socialists (PES, the social democratic faction of the European Parliament), owing to the presence in government of the SNS.
March 2007
Slovakia withdraws its unit of military engineers from Iraq.
July 2008
The Comission and EU finance ministers gave final approval to Slovakia's euro membership, setting a conversion rate for its 5.4 million citizens at 30.126 Slovak koruna to one euro.
