Bruno S. Sergi teaches International Economics at the University of Messina, Italy. He is a Visiting Fellow with the University of Greenwich Business School, London and a Fellow with the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include economic policy, transition economics and European economics. He has lectured in Eastern Europe and in the United States, has published several books and has research experience at various Central Banks and the International Monetary Fund. William T. Bagatelas teaches International Relations, International Business and Political Science at City University Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Central European University in Budapest, Lecturer of International Relations, European Union Studies and Political Economy at the New Anglo-American College in Prague and Lecturer in Globalization and Business Ethics Studies at the University of New York in Prague. He is a former researcher with a national non-profit organization in the US that advised the US Congress and Senate, and has co-edited four books concerning Central and Eastern European business, economics, politics and ethics. Jana Kubicova teaches International Taxation and Public Finance at the Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics Bratislava, Slovakia. Jana Kubicova has published several titles previously on business economics, and current research interests include the EU as a world actor, the EU in the international financial architecture, and the external aspects of the EU's internal policies applying interdisciplinary approach.