With all the hassle over Brexit and complaints nationalist parties are voicing in a growing number of European parliaments,

it helps to remember the advantages of being a member of the European Union.

It constitutes an enormous market and this is one of the things that

many Europeans don't feel or are unable to feel exactly how important the institutions are

for them. Coming up, friends from Europe share their perspectives on the political challenges

they're facing. We'll also look into why the Swiss like to be different. They even

have a wild animal mascot to represent what being neutral means to them.

It will be a fortress that will be very difficult to conquer.

A hedgehog is not going to attack you, but you attacking the hedgehog, you might get

hurt.

And we'll get tips for vacationing and

hungry but if you try to learn some of the language you'll see why it's a

challenge. Well the problem is that we have more exceptions from the rules

than rules itself.

In or out of Europe and travels in Hungary.

It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steeves.

Seems like there's one on every block.

Coming up, we'll get acquainted with Hungary.

It's a tourism destination with an illustrious history, and it's also a country that finds it hard to talk with its neighbors.

We'll also explore how political trends in Hungary and elsewhere are challenging the values on which the European Union was founded.

That's just ahead on today's travel with Rick Steeves.

Let's start with a look at what's missing in the middle of the EU.

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