EUROSKEPTICIZAM I POLITIČKE ELITE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI
EUROSKEPTICISM AND POLITICAL ELITES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The process of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s approchement with the European Union has been marked by numerous problems, including the complex political structure of the country, a lack of consensus among political actors, and slow progress in implementing the reforms necessary for EU accession. However, the main question of this paper is whether there exists genuine Euroscepticism among political leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The stagnation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on its path to the EU may lead to the rise of Euroscepticism and opposition to the very idea of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU membership. This paper focuses on the attitudes of Bosnian and Herzegovinian political actors towards the EU, with the assumption that these actors’ stances on the EU influences not only the country’s progress toward EU membership but also the public opinion about the European project. The aim of the article is to provide an overview of the current positions of the political elites on EU integration and to identify the key reasons for both the negative and positive attitudes of the political elites in BiH toward the EU, as well as to explain the possible consequences of such attitudes on Bosnia and Herzegovina’s path to the EU.

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