1. THE FIRST TEN YEARS
2004-2014

2. AFTER THE FIRST FREE ELECTIONS EUROPEAN
INTEGRATION BECAME THE MOST IMPORTANT
FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVE
IN 1988 HUNGARY WAS THE FIRST AMONG THE
CENTRAL-EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO
ESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH THE
EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (EC)

4.  IN 1993 THE COPENHAGEM SUMMIT DECLARED
THE „COPENHAGEM CRITERIA” THAT THE NEW
DEMOCRACIES OF CENTRAL-AND EASTERN-EUROPE
NEEDED TO FULFILL

7. THE TALKS WITH THE „SIX” INCLUDING HUNGARY
STARTED IN APRIL 1998
THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH HUNGARY WERE CLOSED
AT THE COPENHAGEM SUMMIT IN DECEMBER 2002

8. PRIME MINISTER PÉTER MEDGYESSY SIGNED THE
TREATY OF ACCESSION AT THE ATHENS SUMMIT ON
16th APRIL 2003
HUNGARY BECAME A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN
UNION ON 1st MAY 2004
IT JOINED THE SCHENGEN-AREA ON 21st DECEMBER
2007

10. OUR COUNTRY TOOK THE ROLE OF ROTATING
PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN
UNION FROM 1st JANUARY 2011
HOWEVER, THERE HAVE BEEN DARKER CHAPTERS OF
THE HUNGARIAN EU MEMBERSHIP….

11. IT WAS WRITTEN BY THE PORTUGUESE MEP RUI
TAVARES IN 2013
IT CRITICISED RECENT CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES IN
HUNGARY
THESE CHANGES WERE THOUGHT TO BE
INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EU FUNDAMENTAL VALUES

12. THIS REPORT CAUSED CONTROVERSY NOT ONLY
IN EU BUT ALSO IN THE HUNGARIAN SOCIETY
ACCORDING TO THE EUROBAROMETER SURVEY
HUNGARIANS ARE NOW ONE OF THE MOST
EUROSCEPTIC NATIONS