FTV: Is BiH’s Optimism and Expectance of Candidate Status Justified?

Broadcasted on FTV, March 2019.

News 3 of Federal TV covered the topics of delivering answers to the follow-up questions of the European Commission and acquiring the candidate status. Rasim Ibrahimagić spoke on behalf of the Initiative for Monitoring the European Integration of BiH on the delays in providing answers to the initial and follow-up questions of the European Commission, the time BiH lost in the process of collecting answers and whether it is justified to expect that BiH will acquire the candidate status. Our institutions have missed many chances the European institutions have given them and BiH needs to do a lot of work before the European Commission delivers an opinion on the status of BiH, so it is unreasonable to say that BiH has fulfilled all of its obligations just by delivering answers to the follow-up questions.