The European Union support tools and their impact on the small and medium-sized Enterprises in Czech and Slovak Republic

Small and medium - sized enterprises play an important role in the economy of the European Union and the global economy as whole. The European Union offers many of the support programs for SMEs. This diploma thesis deals with the description and analysis of important EU support tools for SMEs in Czech Republic and Slovakia. The goal of the diploma thesis is to analyze these tools, impact on SMEs, analyze the participation of the Czech and Slovak SMEs within these programs, their interest, do statistics, compare the both states and based on above mentioned analysis and questionnaire survey on chosen sample of small and medium - sized enterprises, some recommendations for the Slovak and Czech SMEs are done and the conclusion about the situation in this sphere is determined