25.08.2010
High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko met today with BiH Presidency Member and Leader of the Party for BiH Haris Silajdzic.Today’s meeting was part of a series of consultations the HR/EUSR will have with senior politicians and party leaders between now and the 3 October elections. The HR/EUSR...
19.08.2010
The High Representative and EU Special Representative in BiH, Valentin Inzko, the Head of the EU Police Mission to BiH, Stefan Feller, and the Chargé d’Affaires of the Delegation of the European Union to BiH, Boris Iarochevitch welcome today’s adoption of the Rulebook on Internal Organization and Systematization f...
18.08.2010
I recently heard about a German investor who wanted to spend several million marks developing an agro-industrial project in Bosnia and Herzegovina that would have employed hundreds of people. When he began to take the project forward, however, he discovered that he would have to bribe a long list of intermediate offici...
16.08.2010
Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina can be tackled if citizens make it an election issue and if they support those institutions that have shown a credible determination to do something about the problem, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko wrote in a column that appeared in today’s issue o...
14.08.2010
The High Representative, by way of his Decision, dated 1 June 2001 (“the 2001 Decision”), removed Mr.Mladen Tolj from his position as Head of the Department of Urban Planning and Housing of the Bratunac Municipality. This Decision also barred Mr. Toljfrom being a candidate for the elections or to hold any executive off...
14.08.2010
The High Representative, by way of his Decision, dated 29 November 1999 (“the 1999 Decision”), removed Mr.Pero Madžar from his position of Mayor of Kiseljak. This Decision also barred Mr. Madžarfrom being a candidate for the elections or to hold any executive office at any level (“Ban”). The 1999 Decision further provi...
14.08.2010
The High Representative, by way of his Decision, dated 23 May 2002 (“the 2002 Decision”), removed Mr. Davor Šilić from his position of Deputy Minister of Justice and Administration in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. This Decision also barred Mr. Šilić from being a candidate for the elections or to hold any ex...
02.08.2010
Citizens should distinguish between candidates and party leaders who only focus on grievances and those who focus on realistic solutions, High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko wrote in a column which appeared today in local media.He said that in 3 October elections citizens will decide betwee...
02.08.2010
In accordance with the powers vested in me by Paragraphs 8, 10, 11, 13, 36, and 37 of the Final Award of March 5, 1999, and Paragraph 9 of August 19, 1999 Annex to the Final Award of the Arbitral Tribunal for Dispute Over Inter - Entity Boundary in Brcko Area; With reference to the Law on Police of the Brcko Distri...
02.08.2010
If you want Bosnia and Herzegovina to change for the better, then exercise your democratic right on polling day. Only the citizens who vote – not the ones who stay at home – will decide who governs for the next four years.To make an informed decision we need informed debate, and the only way we can have informed debate...