The Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between the European Union (EU) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) came into force on June 1, 2015, after the Presidency and both Houses of the BIH Parliamentary Assembly adopted the Declaration of BIH’s institutions commitment to implement the necessary reforms in the accession process, all in accordance with the conclusions of the Foreign Affairs Council of the EU.
Membership negotiations are often not considered as a classic form of negotiations, but more as the candidate’s adaptation process to the legal, economic and social systems of the European Union.
At the time this was perceived as a part of a wider reform project, which was supposed to restructure the Judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The heads of diplomacy of the European Union have agreed to give Albania the candidate status for EU membership. This decision is left to be confirmed by the Heads of State or Government at the meeting in Brussels. The fact is that BiH is the only country in the region, along with Kosovo, that has … Continued