Foreword to Issue 1 of 2008

Abstract

In the autumn of 2005, preserving its more than fifty-year-old traditions, the Public Finance Quarterly came out as a bilingual Hungarian–English journal, renewed both in contents and design. Since then we have tried to compose the contents and structure of each issue with adequate problem sensitivity. Within this framework, we have dealt with, inter alia, the convergence programme, the modernisation of the public finance system, the financial and development correlations of the European integration rela tions, and more recently – approaching the factors influencing the national economy and the financial system in a wider horizon – with the interactions of the society, politics and the economy.