Presumably, one factor is being "prisoners of Geography" (expression of Tim Marshall).
See the map https://decolonialatlas.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/raised-r...
from Anton Balazh ( https://www.shutterstock.com/g/antartis?irgwc=1&utm_medium=A... ),
...Hungary is in a way a protected "Inner Carpathia".
Also quite visible on OpenTopoMap, https://opentopomap.org/#map=6/46.800/19.116
