Under the theme “Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU Path: A Year of Missed Opportunities”, the Alternative Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Progress towards EU Membership 2025-2026 provides a civil society assessment of the country’s EU integration process, with a particular focus on the rule of law, the fight against corruption, the functioning of institutions, human rights … Continued
Bosnia and Herzegovina has made no significant progress in any of the 19 areas analysed in our Alternative Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Progress towards EU Membership for 2025/2026. Ten areas saw backsliding, seven recorded limited progress, and two remained unchanged. These findings confirm that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU integration process is seriously stalled, despite … Continued
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s European integration process has been marked by prolonged stagnation despite occasional formal steps forward. Since the submission of the application for membership in 2016 and the granting of candidate status in 2022, the key Cluster 1 – Fundamentals1 remains the area in which BiH demonstrates the least reform momentum. The European Commission’s annual … Continued
Original source: Transparentno.ba While neighboring countries are already withdrawing their first multimillion-euro tranches from the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains the only country that, due to the failure to adopt its reform program, still has no access to this European Union mechanism. BiH representatives attended the EU–Western Balkans Summit, dedicated … Continued
Throughout 2023 and the first half of 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina faced a slew of political and economic challenges that diverted decision-makers’ attention away from the process of EU integration, i.e. the reforms that must be adopted so that Bosnia and Herzegovina can finally catch up with the rest of the region on this path. … Continued
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legally binding instrument of the European Union (EU) that replaced the Data Protection Directive (the Directive). The Law on the Protection of Personal Data in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Law) is not harmonised with the GDPR since the legislator followed the Directive when enacting the law. Certain … Continued
Thanks to the support of the Central European Initiative – CEI, the Initiative for monitoring the EU integrations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, visited Zagreb as part of a study visit to institutions and organizations in the Republic of Croatia that deal with data protection issues and the application of GDPR. Sarajevo Open Center, Center for … Continued
As part of the academic exchange programme between the University of Leipzig (Germany) and the University of Sarajevo, students from the University of Leipzig visited Sarajevo Open Centre. Through a two-hour lecture and Q&A session with Alen Gudalo, Programme Coordinator of the Initiative for Monitoring the EU integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the students had … Continued
The Initiative for monitoring the EU integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina condemns the adoption of the Draft Law on the Special Register and Publicity of Non-Profit Organizations, known as the Foreign Agents Law, by the Government of the Republika Srpska entity. The Republika Srpska Government is ignoring the voices of non-governmental organizations that have clearly … Continued
The Initiative for Monitoring the EU integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina successfully completed the first activity within the project CEI to DATA ROL, which, on April 15 and 16, brought together representatives of organizations that are members of the Initiative. With the support of the Central European Initiative, the knowledge about General Data Protection Regulation … Continued
The Initiative for Monitoring the EU Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the only coalition of non-governmental organizations in the country that has been monitoring the integration process, welcomes the decision to open negotiations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union. After the formal opening of negotiations, it is time for B&H institutions to … Continued
The Initiative for Monitoring the EU Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina held a strategic planning session in Konjic on March 6th and 7th, bringing together 25 Initiative members. This event was crucial for defining the Initiative’s long-term strategy in monitoring and supporting the country’s EU integration process. During the two-day meeting, the Initiative members had … Continued