ABSTRACT
Istvan Bibo is one of the greatest Hungarian political thinkers. This is not only a meaningless opening sentence. When we say that he was a political philosopher that in crucial moments – right after World War II, during the Hungarian revolution in 1956 – for a short period of time, he acted even as a politician. Federation is like marriage: just naive politicians, who use to deceive themselves and movie-goers, imagine that Federation and marriage will solve the involved actors' all existing problems, therefore, is not worth dealing with them. Territorial disputes are no more acute, imperial nightmares do not hunt nations any more, there are no threats for these states to be incorporated into a larger, artificial construction, like the Ottomans', Habsburgs' and Soviets' empires, so nationalisms cannot disturb the minds of communities.
