Otvoreni su pristupni pregovori BiH s Evropskom unijom! Evropa je NAŠA! 🇧🇦🇪🇺
— Naša stranka (@NasaStrankaBiH) March 21, 2024
For at least ten years, Bosnian politicians utterly failed and brought the country’s path towards the EU to a standstill. The recent decision represents a serious advancement that needs to be followed by an even more serious effort to deliver on the remaining requirements in order for the EU Commission to prepare the negotiation framework. In addition, the date of the first intergovernmental conference, which officially marks the beginning of negotiations, needs to be set.
After a decade of setbacks and negligent progress towards the EU, this is the first time that efforts by state authorities received positive feedback even from sceptical EU member states that insist on a merit-based process. Undeniably, the geopolitical momentum in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the EU’s increased interest in the region played an important role as well. Only this time, the EU was met halfway by BiH authorities who actually delivered on much needed reforms.
Predrag Kojović, a Member of Parliament from “Naša stranka”, recently stated that BiH “can get an official date for the opening of negotiations with the EU as early as June or July this year. If we are to continue to work at this pace, I would say that the country could become a member of the EU in the year 2030!”
Dr. Adnan Huskić is a senior project manager for Bosnia and Herzegovina of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom based in Sarajevo.
Source link : https://www.freiheit.org/western-balkans/eu-membership-negotiations-europe-ours
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Publish date : 2024-03-27 07:00:00
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