Respect for human rights, minorities’ rights and fighting discrimination, are the topics that are completely stepped off the radar in these processes, even though their presence was quite limited earlier, and were connected narrowly to the issues of constitutional changes and the implementation of the Judgement by the European Court for Human Rights in the case of Sejdić and Finci vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The main reasons for the introduction of these changes, among other issues, are greater transparency of the process and a better “control of reforms by all stakeholders, including the civil society.”
In April 2002, the then High Representative, Wolfgang Petritsch, made a decision to suspend the appointment and extension of the mandate for judges and prosecutors, until the reorganization of the judiciary in Bosnia and Herzegovina takes place.
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.
European Commission published Bosnia and Herzegovina Progress Report 2015 today. Members of Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina are working on comparative overview of Report, that will be published soon.
Members of the Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BIH took active part in process of appointment of BIH Human Rights Ombudsmen.
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 Directorate for European Integration (DEI) organizes seminars within educational program in the field of European integration „Learn about EU – grasp EU“ in the fourth quarter of 2015.
According to the latest research, out of 68 cantonal ministers only 8 are women, and women’s participation in the legislative does not exceed 20 percent.
Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Coalition for Combat Against Hate Speech and Hate Crime warn against the politicization of the name issue of official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
European Integration and Regional Cooperation Committee of the National Assembly of Republika Srpska and the Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BiH organize the thematic session where the findings of the Alternative Progress Report BiH 2015: political criteria will be presented.