POLITIČKA ANALIZA: Pristupanje Republike Hrvatske Evropskoj uniji. Otvorena pitanja između BiH i Hrvatske i implikacije po BiH
POLITICAL ANALYSIS: Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union. Open issues between BiH and Croatia and implications for BiH

Author(s): Z. Kulundžić, A. Kapetanović, Davor Vuletić, Mirza Kušljugić, Dževad F. Sarajlić, Zlatko Dizdarević
Subject(s): International relations/trade, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Vanjskopolitička inicijativa BH
Summary/Abstract: On June 30, 2011, at the proposal of the European Commission, the Council of Europe announced the closing of the negotiations on the accession of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union and proposed July 1, 2013 as the date of the country's accession to the Union. Croatia will thus become the 28th member of the EU on that day, if no unexpected and hard-to-imagine problems arise in the meantime. It will thus realize its multi-year basic strategic political, economic and social goal. At the same time, this fact will potentially significantly affect the overall situation in the region, open up new opportunities in the process of Euro-Atlantic integration in the Western Balkans, but also reveal in a new way the negative implications of the open and unresolved issues between Croatia and the countries in the region. Without the resolution of many open questions in this area, the overall situation in BiH, especially economic but also political, may be even more difficult than today. In a new light and intensity, the consequences resulting from the fact of lagging behind in harmonizing the standards with those that will be applied by Croatia as a member of the Union, especially in the economic sphere, will be shown, whereby the standards in its neighborhood will be incompatible with the new standards in Croatia itself. These differences and inconsistencies will primarily be "booked" to the detriment of its neighbors, but in any case they will have significant repercussions for Croatia as well.

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