The paper offers a critical survey of Hungary’s EU membership through analysis of key expected benefits, including trade, free circulation of persons and capital, impact of EU transfers and full-fledged participation in the decision-making process of the integration. Free trade has generated two rapid increase of trade with new EU members and a substantial Hungarian trade surplus. Compared to other new members, the Hungarian labour force remained rather immobile at the start of membership, but revealed enhanced mobility after the formation of a new government in 2010. Since 2007 Hungary has been one of the major beneficiaries of EU funds, unfortunately a large part of that money could have been managed much more efficiently. The current government’s increasingly critical view of the European integration process, implementation of “unorthodox” economic (and social) policies has made Hungary, as of today, the only member country with a government-level anti-EU attitude.
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