The paper provides an overview of the three main mid-term economic programmes of Hungary: the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), designed for identifying the main development objectives and for the efficient use of (EU and domestic) financial resources, the Convergence Programme...

The enlargement of the EU in 2004 and 2007 has led to a significant increase in population and territory, but also a huge increase in differences regarding economic structure and development levels. Despite the traditions of the EU in dealing with such differences, the scope of the latest...