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The recent crisis the European Union had to face raised the question it there still exists a cleavage that divides the "old Europe" from the Eastern regions. The phenomenon, Central Europe can be examined from the historical, cultural, geographic and political perspective searching for the answer, how many parts the European continent can be divided into. Accepting the tripartite division, this "middle" position had various roles in the historical context. The aim of the paper is to investigate the changes in the perception of this special position based mostly on the works of Hungarian researchers. Analysing their thoughts, it is also our intention to examine the Central European concept and to point how this region was searching for its position during the system change, and what additional meaning was given to this region from the 1980s to nowadays. In order to extend the investigation, this paper also focuses on the problem whether Central Europe serves as a historical reference point losing its importance with the European integration, or if it can serve as an obstacle in the deepening of the European integration.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Sport from above -- Chapter 3. A Swedish invention that conquered the world -- Chapter 4: The development of Swedish sport until the 1930s -- Chapter 5: The development of Swedish sport politics until the 1930s -- Chapter 6. The Social Democrats conquer sport -- Chapter 7: The golden age of sport respectability – the post-war period -- Chapter 8: The golden age of the Swedish sport model -- Chapter 9. The polarisation of sport in the post-industrial era -- Chapter 10: Sport – a political exception?

"The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin, and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in value. The volume assesses how these changes came about, as well as the ways in which both political and economic forces altered the pattern of regional wealth and enterprise, in ways which saw the northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed financial capital of England."