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The Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest has given place for the book launch of the Hungarian Editions of Alan Milward’s book – “The European Rescue of the Nation State”. The fundamental ideas of the European Union, the past, present and future of the continent were discussed at the event attended by Tibor Navracsics, Minister of Public Administration and Regional Development.
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The Hungarian edition of Alan Milward’s book “The European Rescue of the Nation State” (Európa megmenti a nemzetállamot) has recently been published in the Europica Varietas series edited by András Osztovits. At a roundtable discussion on the book, published jointly by Osiris Publishing and MCC Press, Tibor Navracsics said that he is grateful for the invitation as he has read the book as far back as in 1996, and it has shaped his thinking on European integration, which is why he regards himself both a sovereigntist and a federalist. The two can go hand in hand, he emphasized, giving several examples from history.
Máté Botos, publishing director of MCC Press, noted that conservative thinkers had been silenced for decades, many books could not be published in Hungary in the past. Therefore a conservative publisher should not only deal with contemporary works – the above book, for example, was published in its original language 30 years ago.
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Sándor Gallai, head of the School of Social Sciences and History at MCC, was the moderator and quoted from the work several times. Participants also discussed important European issues, such as Brexit and the integration of the Western Balkans or the dangerous escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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