POSTDAYTONSKA BIH U SVJETLU PRIDRUŽIVANJA EUROPSKOJ UNIJI
POSTDAYTON BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA IN LIGHT OF EU ACCESSION EFFORTS

Summary/Abstract: Dayton Agreement signed in late 1995. has ended a Bosnian War. This Agreement determined constitutional framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Undoubtedly, Dayton Agreement was necessary to end a war, but it has proved itself as a inadequate in peacetime circumstances and represent an obstacle for further progress of B&H toward euro-atlantic integration. Solution for this deadlock is to adapt a federal system of government which needs to be adjusted for complex political, economical and ethnical situation in the B&H. Therefore, constitutional system of B&H needs to be changed according to federal principles in order to deal with all challenges which are immanent to such complex political entities as B&H unduobtedly is. Also, B&H can draw a lessons from many historical and comparative examples of constitutional systems of this type. This is chance for B&H to create a political system in which all of its citizens will have equal treatment. Unfortunately, at the moment this is not the case, especially with the Croats, despite the fact that they are one of three constituent peoples of this country. Therefore, the Bosnia and Herzegovina need tremendous and major changes of its constitutional system in order to fulfill requirements for EU membership.

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