Attraction and Repulsion
Year: 2020

From the mid-1960s onwards, the issue of obtaining access to the market of the European Economic Community provoked sharp debates within Hungarian elite groups. Using records from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, inter-ministerial bodies and the Hungarian National Bank, the chapter demonstrates the discrepancy between Hungary’s foreign policy and its foreign trade policy. On the one hand, Budapest initiated actions to improve pan-European cooperation, and by the end of the 1970s its foreign policy