On Wednesday 9 July, by 459 votes to 130 with 63 abstentions, the European Parliament adopted the report by Ondřej Kolář (EPP, Czech) on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s progress towards accession to the European Union (see EUROPE 13671/16).
While the report acknowledges some of the progress made by the country, it highlights a process that is currently at a standstill and regrets the authorities’ difficulties in implementing the reforms needed to combat crime and corruption and ensure the independence of the judiciary and the media.
The rapporteur criticises a “failure”, both on the part of Bosnia, but also on the part of the EU, which has not “been able to talk and work adequately with the country”.
“Our role is not only to praise what the country has achieved, but also to criticise what has not been done”, he told a press conference.
Bosnia-Herzegovina is in the grip of internal unrest and a constitutional crisis, due in particular to the separatist ambitions of the Bosnian Serb entity and its leader, Milorad Dodik, who rejects the authority of the Bosnian constitutional court (see EUROPE 13604/12).
See the report: https://aeur.eu/f/hsm (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)