Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet folyóirata - 1995 (1. évfolyam)
1995 / 3-4. szám - ESEMÉNYNAPTÁR - Resumé
Resume Hungarian autonomy as a separatist tendency. The Slovaks, in particular, are worried that an autonomous "Hungarian region" along the borders of Hungary would sooner or later come up with the demand to become part of the country across the border. By way of a final conclusion, therefore, it seems that the Trianon Syndrome is here to stay for a long time to come, both in the awareness of Hungarians and in the relationship between Hungary and its neighbors Whoever pretends the contrary has the burden of proof. Kálmán Kulcsár: Hungary and the European Integration The European integration can be approached from two aspects. As a historic process consisting of economic, cultural, political, and legal components, on the one hand, and as a set of organizations, based on this process (EU, NATO, WEU, the Council of Europe, etc.), on the other. The development of these organizations has of course been influenced continuously by political perceptions and political actions "determined" by manifold factors in a socio-historic situation. These perceptions and actions, as a matterof fact, have also been evaluating the process of integration. This paper deals - in this conception - with the conflicts between the processes promoting the European integration and the national states or national ideas which appear to be strengthening on the Continent. Its main topics are, howewer, those phenomena which have been shaping the chances of the countries in East — Central European region, among them particularly Hungary; for joining the European Union, on the one hand, and those factors which are involved in the interest for enlargement of this organization toward the Eastern part of Europe. The paper analyzes first of all the economic perspectives, but of the same time their connection with the questions of security. Even the future of the new democracies in East — Central Europe, let alone the birth of the potential democratic regimes in the countries of Eastern Europe, are namely endangered - perhaps not with the same intensity - by the social tensions rising from their economic transformation, which easily can become serious political problems. These tensions would not only destabilize the entire region, but might produce a great security risk for the Western part of the Continent as well. Finally the paper emphasizes the great role of the cultural factors in the integration process, particularly taking into consideration the living consequences of those two cultural "communities", that is, the Euro-Atlantic and the Euro-Asian ones, whose roots have been found in the great schism in European culture which took place more than a thousand years ago. 252 Külpolitika
