In this conversation, Gergő Medve-Bálint – co-editor,with András Bíró-Nagy of the new volume Húsz év az Európai Unióban. Magyarország uniós tagságának közpolitikai mérlege (Twenty Years in theEuropean Union. A Balance Sheet of Hungary’s Membership and Public Policies) – discusses theachievements and shortcomings of Hungary’s EUmembership; what continuities and ruptures there have been across these two decades;in whatways Hungary has been a reliable member of the club and where it has deviated from common agendas and policies; and what the case of Hungary may reveal abouthow the semi-peripheries have fared within the EU since 2004.

Gergő Medve-Bálint is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department for Government and Public Policy,HUN-REN Center for Social Sciences. He also acts as an associate professor in political science at Corvinus University.Húsz év az Európai Unióban. Magyarország unióstagságának közpolitikai mérlege (Twenty Years in the European Union. A Balance Sheet of Hungary’sMembership and Public Policies) has been published by Osiris Kiadó.