Bernd Posselt (born June 4, 1956) is a German politician (CSU) and a son of expellees.

Posselt was born in Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1994. In 1998 he became president of the Paneuropa-Union Deutschland, the German branch of the International Paneuropean Union.

Posselt is the leading German advocate of the rights of those Germans whose ancestors lived in the Sudetenland district of Bohemia as well as Moravia and who were expelled by the Potsdam conference and the governments in Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. His main goal - and the principal aim of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft that he has led since 2000 - is to revoke the so-called Beneš decrees, as well as other acts of the post-war expulsions that were meant to punish the German population in the Sudetenland as a whole for its prevailing support of Nazism.

Posselt is respected in the Sudeten German community and in his home state of Bavaria. The conservative Bavarian government has often supported the Sudeten German community, and was among those demanding that the Czech Republic should repeal the Beneš decrees before being allowed into European Union. No politician in the Czech Republic is willing to negotiate with Posselt.^{[citation needed]}

Tonino Picula (born August 31, 1961 in Mali Lošinj, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia) is a Croatian politician of the left-oriented Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). He served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2003.

Picula completed both primary and secondary education at Šibenik. He graduated sociology at Zagreb's University. He is a long-time member of the SDP and was the party's Secretary of international relations from 1993 to 2000. He also led the SDP branch in Velika Gorica from 1997 to 2000. He has been member of the Croatian Parliament for several mandates.

After the year 2000 elections in which SDP, under Ivica Račan, won in a broad coalision, he was appointed to be Foreign Minister until the end of the governments mandate in 2003.

During his term in office, Croatia had several important foreign-relation successes, including becoming a candidate for NATO and the European Union.

During local elections in 2005, he was elected mayor of Velika Gorica. After Ivica Račan died in mid-2007, Picula ran to succeed him as president, but lost during the first round of elections to Zoran Milanović and Željka Antunović.