Višnja Samardžija Višnja Samardžija obtained her PhD(2003) and M.A.(1998) at the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. She is Head of the Department for European Integration in the Institute for International Relations- IMO, Zagreb which she joined in 1981. She was assistant minister in the Ministry for European Integration(2000 and 2004) and was actively involved in the accession process to the EU. Presently is participating in two negotiating working groups on EU membership. She has taken part in or coordinated a number of international projects and conferences; published a number of articles in journals, books and proceedings in Croatia and abroad. Her area of interest includes EU enlargement, EU policy towards South-Eastern Europe and the EU accession of Croatia. She is editor of the IMO book series Europe launched in 1994, a member of the editorial board of the web portal EnterEurope and has edited the IMO bulletin Euroscope(1991-2005). She also lectures on several European study programmes(Faculty of Political Sciences, Zagreb; University J.J. Strossmayer Osijek and Zadar). Tamás Szemlér Tamás Szemlér(born 1968), economist, joined the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences(IWE), Budapest in 1993. He is now senior research fellow at the IWE. His main research and education fields are the structure, changes and prospects of the budget of the enlarged European Union(EU), with special emphasis on structural policy-related issues, as well as the role of French-German relations in the European integration process. He got his PhD degree with his thesis in this latter topic in 2001 at the Budapest University of Economics. In 2000-2001, he represented Hungary in the Villa Faber Group on the Future of the EU. In 2001, he got the“Young Researcher Award” of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2001-2002, he was secretary general of the Hungarian Section of the European League for Economic Cooperation. Since 2002, he is leader of the research group on the EU budget after 2007 of the Task Force for Integration and Development Policy. In 2003, he was a member of the Center for EU Coordination and Communication (working before the referendum on EU accession). He has been a member of Team Europe Hungary since September 2004. 188