The EU perspective not for Sarajevo? Bosnia and Herzegovina’s integration with the European Union: opportunities, challenges and perspectives
The EU perspective not for Sarajevo? Bosnia and Herzegovina’s integration with the European Union: opportunities, challenges and perspectives

Summary/Abstract: In 2018 the European Union (EU) recalled that the future of the Western Balkans lies in the EU. The vision of an “European (Union) future” was announced to the Balkan countries fifteen years earlier, in 2003, when they were recognized as a potential candidates for membership in the EU.In 2016 Sarajevo decided to apply for membership in the European Union. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to analyse the possibility of joining the EU by Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is necessary to identify - even if chosen - opportunities and challenges, perspectives and barriers on the path to further integration of that country with Brussels. The background of these considerations must be the EU’s policy towards the Western Balkans region, which lost its dynamics with the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, and is trying to retrieve if for various reasons nowadays. Will Bosnia and Herzegovina benefit from the intensification of the EU’s enlargement policy?

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