12th Apr 2003
Hungary and the European Union
I’m pleased to have something newsworthy to note other than Iraq news: Hungarians today voted overwhelmingly (upwards of 80% according incomplete tallies) in favor of joining the European Union in a national referendum. The EU has already invited Hungary, among nine other nations, to join the EU as of May 2004. I lived in Hungary from 1990 to 1995, and back then, joining the EU seemed like a distant dream at best for most Magyars. I’m really pleased to see that country I love so well demonstrating, along with several of its neighbors, how far a society can come from an issolated dictatorship to a prospering democracy, ready to embrace an international alliance based on openness and cooperation rather than hollow ideology and mistrust.
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