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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2000  
         
  Article:   INTEGRATION AND NATIONAL INTEREST. CURRENT ISSUES OF HUNGARY''S FOREIGN POLICY.

Authors:  VASS KATALIN.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  For the last few years Hungary’s trend in foreign policy was to realize an equilibrum between three aims closely related to each other. These are the obligation to the case of Euro-Atlantic integration, the implementation of good relations with the neighboring states and the undertaken of moral and political responsibility towards Hungarian minorities across the frontiers of the country. This triple priority of the Hungarian governmental policy is widely supported by the Hungarian political classes and parliamentary parties, which doesn’t mean the existence of total agreement in Hungarian public life regarding the hierarchy and the relation between these aims. This orientation of the Hungarian foreign policy may be considered a successful one. Hungary has already attracted a full one-half of Western investment in Eastern Europe since 1989 and in April 1994 Hungary became the first state in Eastern Europe to make formal application for European Union membership. A smooth and painless passage through the probationary "ante-chamber" from associate to full membership is conditional upon firm economic stewardship, strict observance of civil rights and unqualified respect for existing state borders. The official strategy of Hungarian governments in the 1990’s has been to recognize reluctantly the existing borders and at the same time to foster good relations with Hungary’s neighbors to effect a closer community of all Hungarians.  
         
     
         
         
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