Minister of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina Edin Forto stated that today’s session of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina was of a technical nature after the laws that had been planned were withdrawn from the agenda. As he said, the ministers specifically discussed the Growth Plan and the reform agenda, which in his opinion “fell out of the public interest even though it involves hundreds of millions of euros intended for projects, as well as a list of reforms that are very necessary for Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
“What is currently happening is going too slowly. Two international agreements that BiH must sign in order to join the Growth Plan are in the process, one, I believe, we will receive soon from the Ministry of Finance as material at the Council of Ministers, and the other is in some kind of correspondence with Brussels in terms of harmonizing items,” said Forto and noted that the appointment of a coordinator for the Growth Plan, on which no consensus has yet been reached, may become a political issue.
He warned that Bosnia and Herzegovina will lose 731 million convertible marks if it does not adopt the necessary reforms, which was also recently discussed by the European Union Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos.
Forto pointed out that there is clearly an agreement in some parties not to “rush on BiH’s European path”.
He noted that he could not predict when the budget could be adopted because the last one was adopted at the end of the year.
“All institutions must have a budget for the state to function even when politics is not doing its job. On behalf of our party, I can say that we will not support any version of the budget that does not provide for assistance for BHRT,” said Forto.
