A vast majority of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina support the process of their country’s integration with the European Union but the support varies significantly in different parts of the country, shows a survey conducted by the Directorate for European Integration, an expert body operating as part of the country’s government. Phone interviews conducted in March this year with more than 1,200 people reveal that as many as 91% of citizens in the Croat-Bosniak entity, called the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, support integration with the EU, and that 83% of those who live in the northern Brcko District support it.
In the Serb entity of Republika Srpska the support is significantly lower, but is still majority support, 58%. Almost two-thirds of the respondents believe that there is no alternative to the country’s European path and 85% think that reforms should be carried out for the sake of creating better living conditions in the country and not because it is one of the EU membership criteria.
In a survey conducted last year, 67% of the respondents supported this view. The survey also shows that citizens want to be informed about topics related to EU funds, mostly about concrete projects financed with EU funds.
(Source: dalje)
