Rested, fashionably coordinated and tanned, but still divided and daily distracted by political showdowns. This was also shown by the first session of the Council of Ministers after the summer break, which was supposed to provide a solution for BiH transporters who are announcing a blockade of the streets of major cities on September 1st due to discrimination and lack of competitiveness in the EU, i.e. the Schengen zone. Reports and agreements are in the background, and all the charms of the BiH political scene are in the foreground.
Instead of the solution that BiH transporters have been waiting for for months, a showdown between the two competent ministers – Edin Forto and Staša Košarac. Forto’s decision to form a Committee for the Facilitation of International and Inter-Entity Road Transport that would function according to the principle of an interdepartmental coordination mechanism is unacceptable to the ministers from the RS, not even Košarac, who would move the problem to the EU border.
“I tried to bring everything together in one place to make the flow of information more efficient, they did not agree with that. I believe that some of the transport operators think that this is just another response that would be a kind of bureaucratization of their requests, which is not true because this committee could have helped and I would also say that I am slightly surprised, but not so much that the messages we heard in the latest statement of the Consortium and Ministers Košarac and Amidžić, who are destroying this initiative, are completely consistent,” said Forto, Minister of Transport and Communications of BiH.
“What kind of committees, what kind of commissions, what nonsense? Here, you are witnesses that the Consortium itself said that it was unnecessary for him to run away from the essence and of course try through attacks on SNSD cadres, on RS cadres to supposedly propose something, what did he propose? Why is he not in Brussels, why does he not have the courage to say that we will introduce reciprocal measures for drivers from the EU. You arrest ours, gentlemen, and we will. Why don’t we block the borders with the EU,” said Košarac, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH.
A light atmosphere and an unambitious agenda first, then next week difficult political issues, the EU future and money from the Growth Plan.
“We have these key challenges ahead of us. Two laws that, in my opinion, are technical. Especially now that Dodik no longer has any interest in where the seat of the Court of Appeal will be. He will no longer be able to exert any pressure on anyone, his case is over and we could prepare the HJPC documents that we received quickly, these are documents with over 95 percent compliance and agreement and move on to the story of the selection of the chief negotiator. This is a topic that SNSD is standing in our way of,” says Elmedin Konaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of BiH.
The victim of daily politics were also the concessions that mean easier air traffic between BiH and Great Britain, and under whose sanctions the RS leadership, whose personnel also shot down this agreement, is under.
