One of the current tasks of the Hungárián government is to teach the people how to love NATO. The article gives an overview of the often astonishing instruments of this PR-strategy.

A book written by Erzsébet Szalai is a first attempt to present a comprehensive volume about the transformation of employee representation in Hungary, starting with the movement of workers' councils. The reviewer was part of the movement that launched the workers' councils, and comments the volume from the point of view of the eyewitness and the historian.

A recent book by progressive economists provides a devastating critique of the idea of single market and monetary union in Europe. The authors, however, can also be criticised from an ecological point of view, for making too much concessions to grand infrastructural projects destroying the environment and local jobs. (A. Amin and J. Tomaney (eds): Behind the Myth of the European Union: Prospects for Cohesion. Routledge, London 1995)

The historically high level of unemployment in Western Europe is the greatest challenge before economists and politicians. Most of the authors contributing to a book (Michie and Grieve Smith (eds): Unemployment in Europe. London, Academic. Press, 1994) urge radical reforms based on post-Keynesian considerations.

A new magazine that intends to become the common forum of the anti-Maastricht left, launched by British, Dutch and Belgian politicians. The questions of monetary union can be found in the focus of Spectre, but sufficient space is devoted to the issues of female labour, militarism, and the integration of the Western and Eastern halfs of the continent.