Kitekintés a kelet-közép-európai konszolidációra: Csatlakozás utáni válság Magyarországon
An Overview of Consolidation in East Central Europe: Post-accession Crisis in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: EU entry was felt as a shocking effect in the East Central European new member states that has usually been called post-accession crisis. This paper deals with this complex phenomenon from the side of two long-lasting processes as their completion. The starting point is that due to the effects of systemic change a durable social structural crisis emerged on the one side, since the economic deficit was converted into social deficit, and the new democratic state-building could not yet be finished and the state remained weak on the other side. This deficit-society and weak state had to go through the entry process which provoked the shocking effect because these East Central European states were not prepared for membership in terms of social capacity and completed the institutional system. It is well known from the EU history that all enlargements produced some backlash but since both social capacity and institutional system were at a higher level, the tension there was smaller and took shorter time, so a real post-accession crisis did not emerge. The new Central E uropean member states may cover their post-accession period in a decade and then the new period of the accelerated take-off will begin.

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