The High Representative “made criminal laws according to which I, elected by the will of the people, was tried for an act that I committed exercising my constitutional powers.”
“The Bosnia and Herzegovina you knew no longer exists,” Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said after being found guilty of defying the country’s UN High Representative.
“There can be no sovereignty if you’re a colony,” Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said, calling Bosnia’s western supervision illegitimate and announcing a possible referendum on the region’s future, which could rip the country apart.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, if given the official go-ahead, will join a league of EU hopefuls which presently includes the likes of Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Moldova, Ukraine, and Turkey.
The public recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an official candidate for EU membership was accompanied by a list of reforms deemed necessary by the European Commission to allow further negotiations.
Election results followed the same trend seen over the past 25 years of ethnocentric politics, in sync with the country’s enduring ethnic rifts. But a contested result has led to protests.
