Country report non-discrimination : transposition and implementation at national level of Council Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78 : Czechia

Society in Czechia, a country with a population of 10.5 million, has become increasingly homogenous during its post-war history. In 1945, as part of the settlements following the Second World War, legislation was approved to expatriate most Germans (the largest minority in Czechoslovakia) and Hungarians. The majority of the Czechoslovak Roma and Jewish populations had perished in German concentration camps and many members of the Jewish minority who survived the Holocaust were expatriated as German nationals. The traditional doctrine of Czechoslovak national identity, cultivated since the country's independence in 1918, was abandoned by post-war communist Governments, when separate Czech and Slovak nationalist trends finally prevailed. The Czechoslovak Federation was established in 1969 and was finally dissolved in 1993 when the separate countries of Czechia and the Slovak Republic were formed.