As the annual holidays approach, we count how much the state ministers have done in half a year, what has been accomplished, and what is left for the fall?
The Council of Ministers in six months: irregular arrivals, even rarer quorums, the occasional adopted law, but frequent personal squabbles, insults and making a spectacle of a state institution. For starters, the partnership is being terminated in an unusual way.
“For us, the SNSD has been erased with an eraser… The SNSD cadres will be swept away,” said Elmedin Konaković, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“He can stay at home and play all day like a child, brm-brm, lie on the floor and play with the excavator… We thought Konaković was a bit more serious, I appeal to him to give me back that excavator because he doesn’t know how to use it, and here’s a mousetrap for him, and Forti,” said Staša Košarac, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
While the ministers played cat and mouse, the result of 20 sessions held in half a year: two European laws not adopted, an uncoordinated Growth Plan, an unnamed chief negotiator, and a failed state budget. Priority was given to the reshuffle of the government, but it has not been successful so far.
“The selection of topics continues as if from a buffet. Although we have so many things that are pending, some of them are not feasible in this convocation of the Council of Ministers,” said Edin Forto, Minister of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
While its neighbors count millions, Bosnia and Herzegovina has not received a single mark. The money from the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans has been paid to everyone except our country. Out of the billion and 85 million euros, our officials seem to prefer armchairs and political points.
“I am not in that Troika-HDZ-SNSD coalition. Whatever it looks like now, they have to sit down and come to an agreement,” said Sevlid Hurtić, Minister of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH Greens).
A coalition that only formally exists cannot reconcile the interests of all. By calling for a European path, the Troika wants to expel the SNSD, but for the HDZBiH this is acceptable only if amendments to the Election Law are adopted. Although the position of Minister of Security belongs to representatives from the RS, the HDZBiH still keeps its staff in that position, and there will be no reconstruction of the Council, says the president of the HDZ BiH, Dragan Čović.
“I think it is not realistic and that there is no possibility for such a thing. We gave some colleagues a chance to do so, we set a practical agreement, to protect the Euro-Atlantic path, to protect the equality of the three constituent peoples, to adopt a minimum of amendments to the Election Law,” Čović emphasized.
So, a concrete condition has been set for the opposition from the RS. Nebojša Vukanović responds to the conditions by proposing to initiate the replacement of staff from the ranks of other peoples, who do not allow Serbs to be equally represented.
“We need to start at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina with untangling this tangle and mutual leverage, we are losing huge amounts of money and no one is taking responsibility for it. We don’t know where we will go. If we don’t want to join the EU – where will we go, then?” asked Nebojša Vukanović, president of the Justice and Order List.
The path to the European Union has long been stalled due to internal problems that have preoccupied the ruling majority. The work of state institutions and the salaries of employees could be jeopardized, because the state is still on temporary financing, Federalna writes.
