17.01.2007
HR-EUSR Meets Rehn and Solana In BrusselsThe High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling is in Brussels today.This morning, he met Olli Rehn, the EC’s Enlargement Commissioner. This afternoon, he will meet with the EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Jav...
17.01.2007
You Cannot Spend What You Don’t HaveThere is a core distinction between unsuccessful economies and successful ones. In unsuccessful economies, the people responsible for shaping the business environment focus on allocating wealth; in successful economies they focus on helping to create wealth. Changing this focus is t...
16.01.2007
OHR, Mario BrkicICTY, Matias Hellman OHRSchwarz-Schilling, Solana, Rehn to Discuss Anti-Dayton RhetoricHigh Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, is currently in Brussels where he will be meeting with both Javier Solana, the European Union’s High Representative f...
15.01.2007
The Federation of Bosnia andHerzegovina’s House of Peoples could hold its constituent session with a simple majority of delegates appointed from the FBiH Cantons, according to a legal interpretation of the Federation’s constitution.The FBiH Constitution says that the House of Peoples is comprised of 58 delegates; 17 fr...
14.01.2007
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, will travel toParis and Brussels next week to brief French and EU officials on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.These visits form part of a series of consultations in advance of the next meeting of the Peace Implementation Counci...
12.01.2007
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, wrote to Nikola Spiric today congratulating him on his election to the post of Chair of the Council of Ministers.“You are assuming responsibility at a crucial time for this country,” Mr Schwarz-Schilling wrote in his letter. “You will b...
12.01.2007
High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling thanked Ambassador Lawrence Butler for his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina and wished him well in his next assignment. The High Representative learned today that his Principal Deputy has been asked to return to Washington for important new duties. The High Representativ...
12.01.2007
Bosnia and Herzegovina is critical to stability in the Western Balkans, but the people and leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina should understand that this is not enough to put their country at the top of the list of EU foreign-policy priorities, the High Representative and EU Special Representative, Christian Schwarz-Sch...
12.01.2007
Time to Ask What Bosnia and Herzegovina Can Do for EuropeJoining the European Union is a two-way process. Accession countries change in order to integrate. But the European Union changes too in order to respond to the new internal dynamic that accession countries create. Bosnia and Herz...
11.01.2007
Recent proposals to recall the House of Peoples of the Federation of Bosnia andHerzegovina (FBiH) in its old composition to pass a decision on temporary financing in the FBiH reflects the desperate situation of citizens who rely on Federation and Cantonal services, but the proposals flaunt the most basi...