The article takes the view that EU institutions have been feeling the pressure to reaffirm (and reassure) that they take BiH’s aspirations seriously.
>To long-term observers, the step comes as a surprise, since this year’s enlargement report on the country notes only limited progress, particularly on electoral reforms and the EU’s executive was looking for the appropriate language as votes are still being counted in some parts of the country.
>The Commission’s recommendation is also not the final step, and it will still be up to member states to decide whether to grant candidate status or not.
>Several EU diplomats say the Commission has been increasingly under pressure to take some steps towards candidate status for BiH, especially after it granted candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova earlier this year.
Proud to be Bosnian 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦💪💪💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Now on the one side, granting a state that is still very much supervised by outside forces for fear of it collapsing otherwise – including by non-EU states! – seems a bit rushed. On the other hand, by itself it’s not all that meaningful, but it does allow opening chapters of the acquis communautaire, which could perhaps be a motor for driving and focusing reformative progress within BiH.
I am very pro-EU and I want western Balkan to be part of European project but damn Bosnia & Herzegovina can’t even work as an entity how they will become a candidate country?
To be realistic the only country having serious possibility of joining EU in the near future is Montenegro.
Montenegro is small, without major problems with their neighbours, it’s relatively richer than the rest of non-EU western Balkan nations and it’s in higher place in most of indexes than the rest.
Just give all those countries lite membership: let the citizens be EU citizens, enjoy free travel, employment etc, with giving 0 political representation to the governments: 0 MEPs, no vetos and so on.
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The article takes the view that EU institutions have been feeling the pressure to reaffirm (and reassure) that they take BiH’s aspirations seriously.
>To long-term observers, the step comes as a surprise, since this year’s enlargement report on the country notes only limited progress, particularly on electoral reforms and the EU’s executive was looking for the appropriate language as votes are still being counted in some parts of the country.
>The Commission’s recommendation is also not the final step, and it will still be up to member states to decide whether to grant candidate status or not.
>Several EU diplomats say the Commission has been increasingly under pressure to take some steps towards candidate status for BiH, especially after it granted candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova earlier this year.
Proud to be Bosnian 🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦🇧🇦💪💪💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Now on the one side, granting a state that is still very much supervised by outside forces for fear of it collapsing otherwise – including by non-EU states! – seems a bit rushed. On the other hand, by itself it’s not all that meaningful, but it does allow opening chapters of the acquis communautaire, which could perhaps be a motor for driving and focusing reformative progress within BiH.
I am very pro-EU and I want western Balkan to be part of European project but damn Bosnia & Herzegovina can’t even work as an entity how they will become a candidate country?
To be realistic the only country having serious possibility of joining EU in the near future is Montenegro.
Montenegro is small, without major problems with their neighbours, it’s relatively richer than the rest of non-EU western Balkan nations and it’s in higher place in most of indexes than the rest.
Just give all those countries lite membership: let the citizens be EU citizens, enjoy free travel, employment etc, with giving 0 political representation to the governments: 0 MEPs, no vetos and so on.