In the contest of the emptiest banalities used in the past five to six years, slogans about Europe probably are at the top. In this issue of Eszmélet, we present our readers selected articles on the European Union that help in making an attempt to separate illusions of the 90s from existing alternatives. The authors analyse what are the directions in the development of European integration and what are the lessons from the latest expansion of the Union in 1994. In addition to the development of the regional setting of Hungary, it is also important that the domestic cultural sector has cracked. Public personalities of the Hungarian cultural sector speak up about it and also writings of foreign authors might help in the analysis.

Table of contents

1. Maróthy János, Szilágyi Ákos, Z. Karvalics László, Csoóri Sándor ifj. : Discussing mass culture
2. James Petras : Cultural imperialism at the end of the 20th century
3. Andor László, Krausz Tamás : Hungarian culture: present and future – interview with Ferenc Kósa
4. Kállai R. Gábor : Is the lion still alive?
5. Kenneth McRobbie : The poetry of economics – Karl Polanyi: The Great Transformation
6. Rónai Mihály András : Arthur Görgei the fatal adventurer
7. Simó Endre : Central European dilemmas
8. Peter Gowan : Headless hegemon in East-Central Europe
9. Gerda Falkner : Social dumping in the EU-market
10. Gáspár Tamás : On the Europen Monetry Union
11. The Maastricht Treaty
12. Gender policy in the EU
13. Gallai Sándor : The EU in the polar light
14. Jacques Decornoy : Rio, Cairo and Coppenhagen -The so-called demographic bomb and ethical underdevelopment
15. Links
16. Tőkei Ferenc : Messages from the 19th century – on the 100th anniversary of Engels’ death
17. Mészáros István : The low of value in the works of Marx and Lukács
18. Szalai Pál : On anticommunism