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1991 – European agreements with Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia (free trade, possibility of future membership) (16 December). [2] [3] 1993 – The Council of the European Union defined eligibility criteria ("Copenhagen criteria") for joining the EU (Copenhagen, 21–22 June). [4] 1994 – Hungary submitted its request to join the EU (31 ...
Hungary submitted a membership application to the EU on 31 March 1994 and negotiations on entry began in 1998. At a summit in Copenhagen in December 2002, Hungary was one of ten countries invited to join the EU in 2004. [3] All major parties agreed that a binding referendum on membership was needed before Hungary could join the EU. [4]
On 16 March 1999, Hungary joined NATO and on 1 May 2004, along with the other Visegrad countries, it joined the European Union, strengthening its ties with Western European countries and the United States. In April 2011, a new constitution was adopted which came into force on 1 January 2012.
The Horn government achieved Hungary's most important foreign policy successes of the post-communist era by securing invitations to join both NATO and the European Union in 1997. Hungary became a member of NATO in 1999, [ 6 ] and a member of the EU in 2004.
Article 49 of the Maastricht Treaty (as amended) says that any European state that respects the "principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law", may apply to join the Union. The European Council set out the conditions for EU membership in June 1993 in the so-called Copenhagen criteria ...
The largest enlargement of the European Union (EU), in terms of number of states and population, took place on 1 May 2004.. The simultaneous accessions concerned the following countries (sometimes referred to as the "A10" countries [1] [2]): Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Austria-Hungary, [c] also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe [d] between 1867 and 1918.
Hungary received aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union and the World Bank. [9] In October 2008 the head of Hungary's largest bank called for a special application to join the eurozone. [10] Ferenc Gyurcsány ran out of political capital in March 2009 to accept necessary measures.