10.11.2008
What are the conclusions of today's Brussels meeting of the EU Council of Ministers? The very fact that EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers of Defense must discuss Bosnia and Herzegovina shows the gravity of the situation. It has been emphasized on a number of occasions that the signing of the Stabilization a...
09.11.2008
The European will be the focus of public debates in Bosnia and Herzegovina next week, as part of a stronger engagement of domestic forces and the European Union in realizing BiH’s ambition to join the EU.On Monday, EU Defence and Foreign Affairs Ministers are expected to issue conclusions on the situation in BiH and th...
06.11.2008
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, today welcomed the decision of the BiH Presidency to ratify the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union. "By completing the ratification process, Bosnia and Herzegovina is, for the first time, in a forma...
06.11.2008
The High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák met with the Japanese Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Shintaro Ito, and other senior officials in Tokyo today. He presented the current political situation in BiH and outlined the progress this country had made with respect to meeting the f...
05.11.2008
The European Commission report has very precisely identified areas in which BiH has achieved progress as well as those where such progress, unfortunately, has not occurred. We all expected that after signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement the political elite would focus wholely on the European integrati...
05.11.2008
From the perspective of Bosnia and Herzegovina, our priority is that the US, along with its international partners, remains fully engaged in supporting the countries of the Western Balkans as they move towards full integration in the EU. When George Bush took over from Bill Clinton in 2001, Bosnia was still very fragil...
04.11.2008
High Representative and EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák, today wrote a letter to the Collegium of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH with regard to their intention to discuss, under urgent procedure, a Proposal of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Civil Ser...
03.11.2008
The European Union must refocus its attention on Bosnia and Herzegovina, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Miroslav Lajčák, said in London today. The HR/EUSR was speaking during a meeting with British Minister for Europe Caroline Flint.The HR/EUSR stressed that the International Community will...
03.11.2008
Also published as a discussion paper by The Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics www.lse.ac.uk/depts/global Thank you for offering me this opportunity to speak to you today. It is a pleasure to be here.In his 2002 book, Bosnia after Dayton, your own Professor Sumantra B...
02.11.2008
As part of his continuing dialogue with citizens, EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák has asked citizens a new question on the www.reci.ba website.“I am sure and aware that there are many prejudices regarding the European Union, which is perhaps normal, as we were faced with a similar situation in my country...