2022 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Christian Schmidt vs. High Representative (OHR)?
2022 Bosnia and Herzegovina: Christian Schmidt vs. High Representative (OHR)?

Author(s): Not Specified Author
Subject(s): Politics, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, International relations/trade, Electoral systems, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: IFIMES Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije
Keywords: 2022; BiH; politics; OHR; electoral law;
Summary/Abstract: After the Russian invasion on Ukraine, which begun on 24 February 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Western Balkans region as a whole, once again became a focus of international attention. There is almost no relevant report or discussions at which Bosnia and Herzegovina is not identified as a location of possible conflict.After the Russian invasion on Ukraine, which begun on 24 February 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Western Balkans region as a whole, once again became a focus of international attention. There is almost no relevant report or discussions at which Bosnia and Herzegovina is not identified as a location of possible conflict. For more than a decade the US administration has left Bosnia and Herzegovina in the care of the European Union (EU), which has more than evidently missed the historic opportunity to make important steps forward towards a prosperous BiH. Not just that such steps have not been made but the EU has created in BiH a situation identical to that in Ukraine in the eve of the Russian invasion. The sequence of moves by EU officials towards BiH indicates a high risk of corruption, just as in the case of the possible imposition of the BiH Election Law.

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