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The debt mountain – how to overcome?

The author shows us the developing process of the „debt trap". If the accumulated debts cause stagnation, poverty and social tension in the debtor and lower economic growth in the creditor nations, even within the nowadays framework of economic thinking, i. e. if this problem is unsolvable, what can be done? Answer of the author is: the interest rate for the indebted countries must be co-ordinated with their export to the creditor nations and with their own economic growth. The solution is a common interest of the creditor and borrower nations.

Round table discussion about the nation

Lajos Für, Miklós Szabó and Ferenc Kósa outline their opinions about the topicality of the national question, the causes behind the renaissance of national thinking, the sharpening of nationality conflicts in Eastern Europe and the role of the Jewish and gypsy question in the present Hungarian society.

At the roots of the Caucasian conflict

The author analyses the Azeri-Armenian relations in the Caucasus that take such a sharp, violent form today which can be compared to the conflicts of national interests between Hungarians and Roumanians in Transylvania. He describes the relations between the Caucasian peoples, the history of those relations, the national movements of Armenians and Azeris in the periods of dependence on the Turkish Empire, tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union.

Roma people, prejudice and self-organisation

This is a monologue condensed from an interview with one of the founders of the Phralipe, democratic gypsy organisation about the causes of the present Gypsy problem, the manipulation encouraging prejudices, the necessity of the Gypsies' political self-organisation and the possibility of solidarity for those elbowed out.