during the 1980s, the concept of Mitteleuropa, a central Europe that does not belong to either the West or the East, has seen renewed support in Germany and Austria, but also in the central European countries in the Soviet sphere of influence. What are the possibilities to see this “englouti continent”, which seems to exist only in imaginary and literary tradition, to emerge again? What does the renaissance of this myth mean? Should we welcome or worry about this in view of European unification? These are some of the questions that the French, German, Austrian, Polish experts etc. tried to answer in Paris in June 1987. The events in 1989, which of course none of them could have foreseen, gave new insight into them, but did not detract from their relevance.