SARAJEVO, MARCH 21 (ONASA) – We talked about Bosnia and Herzegovina’s European path with Kemal Ademović, Speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ademović reminded that only two European laws and a total of 20 laws were adopted in the period from 2018 to 2022, while seven European laws and a total of 16 laws were adopted in the previous year.
“In one year, as the chairperson of the European Commission (Ursula) von der Layen said, we have made a step forward that has not been made by the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last ten years.
This is a very serious step forward”, he pointed out.
He explains that if accession negotiations are opened, an analysis phase will follow in which all these laws will be reviewed.
“It is quite certain that some of these laws will be revised”, he said.
According to him, the Western Balkans came into the focus of the EU as a possible region of Russian influence.
“They don’t want to let it go and then they gave us a chance.
We used that chance, but by working.
The domestic authorities are also responsible for these steps forward, no matter how powerful these negotiations and parliamentary sessions in Bosnia and Herzegovina were, serious steps forward towards joining the EU have been made,” he said.
Commenting on the statement of the President of the RS Milorad Dodik that the negotiator will be from Republika Srpska, Ademović says that the negotiation will be a painstaking process.
“It will take a lot more energy from everyone in BiH, both politicians and the administration, to get the job done as soon as possible in this next step.
When we get the date and when the first cluster opens it will require a lot of energy.
From Bosnia and Herzegovina, it would be best if it were someone who can handle that job, who will be qualified enough, capable of doing it in the interest of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I do not rule out the possibility that it is someone from another entity. And that is Bosnia and Herzegovina,” he said.
He reminds that joining the EU is one of the key foreign policy priorities of all political actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“Through this set of laws that were adopted in a short period of time, they have shown that this is so.
I hope they keep it up.
We can predict anything prophetically.
Maybe there will be a stoppage in three months from a year, we can’t project that,” he said.