MIR I SIGURNOST: Evropske Integracije Bosne i Hercegovine pod prijetnjom sekuritizacije
PEACE AND SECURITY: Evropske Integracije Bosne i Hercegovine pod prijetnjom sekuritizacije

Author(s): Lejla Ramić-Mesihović
Subject(s): Governance, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Vanjskopolitička inicijativa BH
Summary/Abstract: European integration remains the only process about the importance of which there is consensus among the general public in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although support for certain aspects of this process fluctuates, the success of European integration completes the vision of BiH as part of a large market, with great opportunities for education, employment, trade and positive interactions that promote growth and stability. The context, which would turn the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement into a state of frozen conflict while satisfying the minimum of predictability and stability, proves to be more of a convenient response to the needs of daily politics, than an adequate environment for the requirements of long-term, consistent and strategic action, which is the backbone of integration into the EU . After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the stabilitocratic insistence on the status quo is now paying off in the form of an attempt to subordinate the European perspective of BiH to securitization, at the cost of a significant improvement of the situation and life in the country. The price of stagnation, which in processes such as European integration, can never essentially be, is the most visible and measurable in this phase in relation to the implementation of the 14 priorities derived from the Opinion on BiH's ability and readiness for EU membership.

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