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On Christmas day, Hungary marks the 1,000th anniversary of the day when Stephen,the country's king, accepted a crown sent by the pope and joined the western European family of Christian nations. Stephen's was a bold decision which did not prove universally popular.The process has its parallels in Hungary's attempts to join the European Union. For many of the moves along Hungary's painful 10-year march from
communist one-party rule and central planning to democracy and the free market have been unpopular.
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