Mr. Dane Taleski holds a Master of European Studies (M.E.S) from the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn, Germany, after finishing his BA in Political Science at the Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Аs of September 2008 he is a Doctoral Candidate at the CEU Political Science Department, specializing in EU integration and Europeanization. Mr Taleski was a consultant and researcher on EU affairs for the Sector for European Integration of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia. He has working experience in the Department for EU External Relations of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenchaft und Politik - SWP) in Berlin, and has worked on EU related issues for other international organizations. Dane Taleski is an alumnus of the Bertelsmann Transformation Thinkers and the DCAF Young Faces Network. He has attended academic and policy oriented conferences all around the Balkans, as well as in the EU and in the US. His articles have been published in Germany, Austria, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia.