UID:
kobvindex_HPB1054830393
Umfang:
1 online resource
Ausgabe:
1. edition.
ISBN:
9783845278124
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3845278129
Inhalt:
The author presents a well-documented, comprehensive description of the bumpy road Hungary has travelled and the efforts it has made to achieve EU membership. She not only describes the problems, negotiating techniques, and the role of EU institutions and the big and small EU member states in this process but also evaluates the first years of Hungary’s EU membership including its presidency of the EU. Her ‘insider’ report is based on the experiences she gathered in the planning office at the Economic Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences, as an expert in Hungary’s negotiations with the IMF and as a member of the Hungarian team negotiating the country’s membership of the EU. Her book is a reliable and unique source for all those interested in the history of the change of regime in Hungary and in the everyday functioning of the EU, especially for those striving for EU membership. She reports about the impressions she accumulated in Berlin, Helsinki, Moscow, Washington and Brussels.
Anmerkung:
Cover; Introduction; Part I: Preparation for the historical challenges of the future; Chapter I: Professional experience before the great tasks emerge; 1. In the Institute for Economic Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; 2. In the National Planning Office; 2.1 The Planning Office (PO); 2.2 Desk officer for the Hungarian-GDR economic and trade relations; 2.3 Desk officer of the Hungarian-Soviet economic and trade relations!; 2.4 The role of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; Chapter II: The policy of opening towards the Western world.
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1. The activity of the new unit is manifold 2. Hungary's gradual rapprochement to and membership in the international organisations: GATT, IMF, World Bank; Chapter III: IMF course in Washington D.C.; 1. Arrival in Washington -- the beginning of the course; 2. The aim of the course: to provide information on the IMF machinery; Chapter IV: In the "country of silence" as a wife of a diplomat and as employee of the foreign trade representation; 1. As a wife of the Ambassador in Helsinki -- the tiny secrets of the "Finnish miracle"; 2. The victors of defeats -- rationality born by history.
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3. Increasing Hungarian interest for the methods of the "Finnish miracle" 4. Not even the Finnish method can counteract the increasing insolvency of the Soviet Union; 5. Finland is preparing in a disciplined manner for the Single European Internal Market programme of the EEC -- in Hungary this is not yet on the agenda; Part II: On the way back to Europe; Chapter V: Changing the political regime and the first steps towards the European Union (1989-1990); 1. Prelude to the political changes in Hungary seen through the eyes of an economist and a wife of a diplomat.
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2. Hungary's path to opening the Western border Chapter VI: My "change of regime". From the National Planning Office into the Ministry of Trade; Chapter VII: Relations between Hungary and the European Communities at the end of the 1980's; 1. The Hungarian-EEC Agreement of 1988; 2. The Phare Programme; 3. Changes in the international conditions; 4. Changes in the office and outside the office; Chapter VIII: Negotiations leading to the Association/Europe Agreement; 1. Starting of the association negotiations; 2. The substantial differences between the EC and the Hungarian positions at the start.
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3. The routine of the negotiations Chapter IX: The content of the Association/Europe Agreement; 1. The main elements of the Association Agreement and of the supplementary protocols enlarging and deepening its content; 2. The results of the Association Agreement in numbers; Chapter X: The special measures related to free trade: rules of origin, rules of competition, safeguard clauses, and provisions concerning areas outside free trade; 1. The preconditions of free trade.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Hargita, Ágnes. Hungary's way back to Europe. Baden-Baden, Germany : Nomos, 2018 ISBN 9783848735099
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 3848735091
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
ProQuest Ebook Central
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