After the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) failed to agree on the draft text of the Reform Agenda necessary to secure 70 million euros from the European Union (EU), SDA issued a statement.
As they stated, the SDA Collegium supported the position of the prime ministers of four cantons (Tuzla Canton (TC), Zenica-Doboj Canton (ZDC), Una-Sana Canton (USC), and Central Bosnia Canton (CBC) to give conditional approval to the text of the Draft Reform Agenda, which needs to be sent to the European Commission for further procedure.
“We believe that the Draft Reform Agenda needs to be agreed upon and sent to the European Commission as soon as possible, but parts of the document related to respecting the decisions of the Constitutional Court of BiH cannot be removed,” they stated.
They find it unacceptable for the term “state” to be removed from the entire document, “for state institutions as activity holders to be replaced by entity ones, for entity and ethnic veto to be introduced in decision-making where it did not exist before, and for the list of indicative projects that will be financed to mainly include projects from the Republika Srpska (RS) entity and cantons with a Croatian majority, while cantons with a Bosniak majority are neglected.”
“Accommodating ultimatums from the RS entity cannot produce a Reform Program that is needed by BiH and its citizens,” the SDA stated.
