| | In Hungary, the end of state socialism was administered by a new,
conglomerate political elite, made up of the younger and most
reform-minded members of the state-socialist political leadership
along with small, highly intertwined informal networks of
politically active liberal and nationalist intellectuals. Seeking full
membership in the European Union was probably the only policy
principle upon which all members of the post-state-socialist
political elite agreed initially. The only audible opposition to the
country's EU-membership today comes from the right and for all
the wrong reasons. Social and environmental considerations,
whether domestic or global, are completely absent from this
ambivalent, nationalist resistance to the EU.
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