Bosnia and Herzegovina is paying a high price for the irresponsibility of politicians. 70 million euros were missed from the first tranche of the Growth Plan. Part of the reform projects that should be financed with that money will still be implemented. What is the coalition doing at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina and where did it hide? Almost two months have passed since the last meeting, there is a lot of work on BiH’s European path.
The functioning of the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina is not promising. The return of the ruling party to the table and the opening of priority issues is conditioned by the resolution of the processes that caused the blockage. One of the prerequisites is to clarify which obstacles were key to the non-acceptance of the EU Growth Plan. The dynamics seem to be timed after the local elections.
“We are trying to arrange that picture. You know that we did not suffer from ego and that we also called the SDA and called for reason and called the cantonal premiers, so we are trying to return the remaining three points and negotiate with the EU, but also not giving Dodik any the possibility to hide behind these processes in the Federation”, says Sabina Ćudić, a representative of our party in the PSBiH House of Representatives.
“Nevertheless, we should be, not overjoyed with what we have done, but satisfied, and that should be a motive to work even harder, to seek agreements and compromises in order to create the best possible solutions for Bosnia and Herzegovina and its citizens,” the HDZ MP and BiH in PD PSBiH Marinko Čavara points out.
Those who think that by fulfilling the priorities we will centralize the state beyond the constitutional order are mistaken, says SNSD’s delegate in the House of Peoples, Radovan Kovačević.
“If you follow what’s happening and how it’s happening, then it’s much more certain that until the situation calms down and some kind of tension is established, then it’s more certain after the election, but I’ll repeat – as far as we’re concerned, we can sit down tomorrow,” says Kovačević.
The goal was not to improve the quality of life. He was trying to catch a train to Brussels. A policy of compromise was pursued. That is now over and in the past.
“It’s not a programmatic coalition, but it must be said that at the beginning of their rule, things really looked great. Bosnia and Herzegovina is out of control,” says political analyst Enver Kazaz.
The initial momentum is gone. We are witnessing a war of words between the coalition partners. The work is not visible. This is how the interlocutor sees the coalition at the BiH level.
“I think that the citizens stopped expecting anything a long time ago. Especially not reforms. We saw that they also failed with the Growth Plan. So they don’t expect anything, and especially not those solutions that would improve their quality of life,” emphasizes political analyst Tanja Topic.
The coalition at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina met for the last time on July 1, when it was agreed to adopt the budget of the Institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. And then under the pressure of deadlines and demands of the European Union, BHRT writes.
