Domestic leaders with visions, on the way to align their own interests, find themselves in the policy gap between the West and the East. The state coalition, encouraged by signals from the European Union, promises unstoppable progress in European integration. Tomorrow the party exam before the final test in state institutions. Deadlines are short, expectations are high, and the front on which the opposition appears has never been bigger. What is the EU asking for, and what can BiH do?
Delegation of the EU to BiH: The European Union expects support for reforms that will enable progress on the road to the EU, such as the Law on Courts and the Law on Conflict of Interest.
Milorad Dodik: I think we have come close to two laws, namely the Law on the Court and the Law on Conflict of Interest.
Nermin Nikšić: At the start, he said the Law on the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Law on Conflict of Interest, but it is about the Law on Money Laundering.
Milorad Dodik: I think it is very reasonable to proceed by separating these two laws, in order to make an offer first of all to the EU.
Dragan Čović: We need to quickly do some things in the Council of Ministers, so that the Parliamentary Assembly and the Council of Ministers will sit in a relatively short period of time so that they will have a chance before the arrival of the EU representatives to see a positive atmosphere.
Nermin Nikšić: Before the session of the Parliamentary Assembly, we will have another meeting.
This Thursday at 2 p.m. Sarajevo. Hosts – Troika parties. Weighing the deal, finalizing the law. The session of the state parliament scheduled for the last day of this month.
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives of BiH Denis Zvizdić dosed optimism from the last meeting of the state coalition: “I don’t have many arguments to be 100% optimistic that what was agreed at that meeting will be realized, bearing in mind the behavior of the representatives of the SNSD, who are very often at the last moment, before the actual session or at the session of the Council of Ministers or the Parliament, they dispute what was previously agreed”.
Rushing with the laws, cleaning up before the arrival of guests. Intentions expressed verbally, and the background of the story casts a shadow on the clear perspective that everything is in the interest of the state and EU integration. Who is honest and who is playing for their own interests?
“Everyone has their own reasons for trying to create an environment of European orientation before the arrival of Ursula von den Leyen. I think the only honest one is Nermin Nikšić. I don’t believe in the sincerity of Dragan Čović, and as for Milorad Dodik, I very often repeat that he is a kind of gambler, a political matchmaker, who is after everything and everything is about money”, says academician Slavo Kukić.
Thus, Dodik, by his own admission, temporarily gave up his veto for the adoption of the Law on the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, while negotiations on the Law on the Courts of Bosnia and Herzegovina have the green light. At the same time, it opened a front on which the opposition in the RS is coming.
“The formation of a new court does not lead to the proclaimed path of restoring jurisdiction, but to the cementing of unconstitutionally transferred jurisdictions and further derogation of the jurisdiction of the RS”, said the president of the SDS, Milan Miličević.
Opposition members in the RS demand that everything be discussed first in the NSRS, and only then at the state level.
“I think that this is the initiative that originates from the opposition, in order to bring the initiative out into the open, that is, the position of the ruling party that no law will be discussed in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH until the Law on the Constitutional Court is passed,” notes political analyst Tanja Topić.
The European readiness of domestic leaders, for some it’s just a pledge to soften foreign financiers, for others it’s a victory of public ideals, and for some it’s an encouragement to strengthen the state. Whether there will be an upheaval on the road between the floors of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina is difficult to forecast because, according to Kukić, the state coalition, whether it wants to or not, must do everything before the announced visit from the EU, which, on the other hand, must build a dam in Bosnia and Herzegovina winds from the East.
“Therefore, from this meeting – here, I am speaking in advance and we will see how it will end – Urusla von den Leyen will send a message about the significant progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, claims Kukić, Federalna reports.
