In 2003, we closed the second phase of a four-year interdisciplinary research programme. The researchers of Institute for World Economics presented the economies of some big EU member states. Among these countries, the studies on Germany and France are remarkable not only because these two countries have central positions within the EU but they have significant impact on the changes of the EU decision making system as well as on the further functioning if EMU. Germany and France have come up against the other ten countries in the EMU because these two countries have for long time violated the Stability and Growth Pact and they have not had to pay any penalty because the Ecofin council exempted them from doing so. In this year, greater emphasis was paid to the analysis of the task for the Hungarian economy. On this basis, a study was written on the tasks of the income and expenditure sides of the Hungarian budget after the EU accession. In a separate study the economic policy tasks for the Hungarian agriculture prior to the EU accession were analysed. A summarising study was written on the key tasks of the economic policy aiming at catching up prior to the EU accession. Two papers were written by the Institute for Political Sciences of the HAS on some issues of public administration. One of the papers surveyed the Hungarian country planning and regionalisation efforts and the other one investigated the chances of subregional integration of Hungarian communities. In the Institute for Law of the HAS, a long-range study was written on the recent reform of the EU decision making system. This study attempts to draw up the directions of further reforms. In the Institute for History of the HAS a comprehensive study was written on Italy.

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