Towards a Unified Europe [antikvár]

The present booklet contains the papers submitted to the Swedish- -Hungarian Legal Seminar held on 16-20 March 1994 in Budapest as the third meeting of this kind. These conferences have been, as a rule, devoted to selected topics of mutual interest with papers prepared on both sides and followed by discussion. This time we agreed to dedicate the seminar to some issues covering a wide field of law and with a considerable (though a bit different) interest for both countries (and their scholars). The first of these topics was the eternal (and therefore always interesting) problem of human rights, this time with special emphasis on their implementation. As it will be clear, however, upon reading the papers that they are viewed upon from somewhat different angles by Swedish and Hungarian scholars. As second, the problem of regionalism both at national and supra-national level was selected. Once again and not surprisingly both partners found different points of view in discussing regionalism in its various forms. The third issue was bankruptcy. Here, the differences are clear and natural: Sweden, being one of the leading industrialized (and post-industrialized) countries of the world with a full-fledged and highly developped market economy has for centuries preserved the continuity of the legal institutions of market economy. On the contrary, Hungary, although it had a sophisticated legal structure of the market economy before 1948, is now on her way to readopt those legal institutions under new conditions. It should be added that certain institutions of the market economy were reintroduced in the Hungarian legal system in the course of the economic reform beginning in 1968. One further remark appears to be necessary. We publish here the revised text of the papers presented at the seminar; thus the lively discussions which followed the presentation of the papers are not, or only slightly, reflected in this publication. Nevertheless, we do hope that it will be a useful source of information for many readers.