Političko odlučivanje u procesu integracije Bosne i Hercegovine u Evropsku uniju
POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING IN THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

Summary/Abstract: Although twenty years have passed after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina has not yet qualified that can "independently fulfill its international obligations", as it is mentioned by means of institutions of the Council of Europe and the European Union. One of the reasons for such situation is certainly extremely complex constitutional and political structure of the state that was established in 1995 by Annex 4 of the Dayton Peace Agreement, which is called "Constitution" of Bosnia and Herzegovina and which contains numerous of discriminatory regulations. Furthermore, the same Annex 4 - Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina has combination of, as the Venice Commission states, "ethnic-territorial principles', which prevent 'broader development of nationhood'. At the same time, these principles, expressed through discriminatory regulations that directly after the signing of the peace agreement, had certain justification in protecting the interests of so-called 'Constituent peoples', today, twenty years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, cannot have any justification. Therefore, the authorities of the Council of Europe and the European Union have repeatedly warned the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina that, in the new constitution, find efficient and rational procedures of political decision making. This is especially important at the moment when the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina has submitted its application for EU membership and when it is expected of it to take series of steps to allow the unhindered process of political decision making in order to meet the conditions, both for its progress and prosperity and for full membership in the European Union.

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