Chances are increasingly slim that Bosnia and Herzegovina will receive the green light from Brussels by the end of the year to open accession negotiations with the European Union.
The conditions include adopting the Law on the Court of BiH, the Law on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, and appointing the chief negotiator — issues on which no consensus currently exists.
While officials in Sarajevo once again point to Republika Srpska as the alleged obstacle, Srpska’s representatives respond that any attempt to impose unagreed decisions will fail — even at the cost of slowing down the country’s EU path.
Is the push for EU integration being used as a pretext for a new attempt to centralize the state and strip Republika Srpska of its constitutional competences?
Source: RTRS
