European Realities in the 21 st CenturyComments on a 'European Review' 1 A handbook entitled European Review is a recent publication of more than 800 pages published (in Hungarian) by the Ludovika University Publishing House in Budapest, edited by László Trócsányi and László Gábor Lovászy. With this book, the authors and editors have aimed for a gap-filling publication: to examine the Member States (MS) of the European Union in terms of their integration processes, according to a set of predefined criteria described below. The editors' point of departure was that the EU MSs are facing new social, political, economic and environmental challenges in the process of globalization. Each MSs responds differently to these in many cases and in others there are some discernible patterns to compare. These responses can be looked at in light of the values of the European Union, but in many cases these values have been interpreted differently in the different MS. The book European Review guides the reader through the 26 current MS of the EU (excluding the editors' home state, Hungary and the United Kingdom) in terms of how they interpret and apply European values in response to the challenges of globalization. This guide is based on 26 country reports; each structured around four thematic areas. These are also examined in detail below. The aim of the authors was to provide an overview of the EU Member States on the issues discussed, based on publicly available, relevant survey and statistical data and analyses (including scientific literature in the different fields as well) prepared by international and EU organisations, institutions and non-governmental organisations. Throughout the book, the different authors refer to the data studied in different languages through more than 4,000 references. 2 The European Review does not seek to treat the same data and trends in the same depth for all countries. Given the amount of information processed, synthesis of the data from the sources studied, identification with their outcomes, or drawing conclusions from them were also not among the intended objectives. The project can be considered as
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