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00:05:16The actors of Atelje 212 demanded the dismissal of the management,
00:05:20i.e., the acting director Ljubiša Ristić, who was appointed
00:05:25Now, a part of the employees of the National Theater
00:05:29reminds the management of the request from a year and a half ago when
00:05:33Dragoslav Bokan was appointed
00:05:36president of the management board. I would like to remind the public
00:05:39and the organized crime prosecutor's office
00:05:42that Darko Tomović, the president of the union, on behalf of all of us,
00:05:46members of that union, filed
00:05:49a criminal complaint against Nikola Selaković, the president
00:05:53of the management board, Bokan, and the acting
00:05:56director of the National Theater, Bajić, for negligent conduct
00:06:00and endangering the safety of their employees
00:06:03as well as the audience. Not to
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00:06:10criminal complaint, but it stands. In someone's
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00:06:24a cultural institution, has one or
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00:08:26The biggest challenge is to timely and correctly convey information to you,
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00:08:41Behind us are years in which we found both time and a way
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00:09:17And in the continuation, we will talk about the European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Secretary
00:09:21General of the European Movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haris Plakalo,
00:09:25has joined me in the studio. Good day and welcome. Good
00:09:28day to you, good day to your viewers. Thank you. The enlargement plan
00:09:31has been presented, we have just heard the head
00:09:35of the European Union Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina say: "uh,
00:09:38a lost year, uh, we didn't get anything from
00:09:42the growth plan, we are the only country that didn't withdraw money, we are the only
00:09:46country that didn't get a roadmap, can we
00:09:49expect a shift in the next four years?" Uh, first of all,
00:09:53that shift should be structured in three areas, that is, to
00:09:57finally establish a functional negotiating mechanism with the new
00:10:01government, that is number one, number two should be
00:10:04judicial reform, i.e., the adoption
00:10:07of important judicial laws such as the law on the HJPC and the law on the court
00:10:11which are not just some... technical letter requested by the European
00:10:14Commission, but basic changes within the judicial
00:10:17structure of a state, and then the focus should be on the third
00:10:21area, which is economy, market, strengthening competitiveness, attracting
00:10:25investments, of course, all this that I have mentioned
00:10:28must be preceded by a political responsibility above all and
00:10:32a political commitment to reach the stage of
00:10:35implementing this and thereby
00:10:38getting closer to European trends, starting
00:10:42our negotiating process and proceeding to the opening
00:10:45of chapters, is that enough now, somehow the European
00:10:49Union, we can say, eased up
00:10:52in the previous period, we clearly had those 14
00:10:55demands, then that was reduced, we got
00:10:59that green light for opening
00:11:02negotiations, can we now expect more
00:11:05additional concessions, especially since
00:11:08Marta Koz today announced a new model of gradual
00:11:12integration, so how to view that model, can it at least
00:11:16help perhaps the authorities themselves to understand what the European
00:11:20Union is asking for, but also to say how complicated the system itself is in Bosnia and
00:11:24Herzegovina. The gradual integration into the European Union
00:11:27was specifically emphasized by the Head of the European
00:11:30Union Delegation, Ambassador
00:11:33Soreca, that it would imply access to SEPA, in a certain way,
00:11:37access to the single market within the European Union, but all of this requires
00:11:41reforms, so it won't just happen.
00:11:44In 2019, when Bosnia and Herzegovina received the opinion
00:11:48of the European Commission, divided into four areas, 14 priorities, not
00:11:51much was done to implement those priorities. In 2022,
00:11:55candidate status was granted, and
00:11:58in 2024, negotiating status. It was not
00:12:01the European Commission that did this because it
00:12:05lowered its criteria. It simply has the sensitivity to want
00:12:08to see the entire Western Balkan region one
00:12:12day integrated into full membership of the European Union, especially
00:12:15Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is what it is in terms
00:12:19of its constitutional complexity and structure and truly one
00:12:23difficult way of making decisions and everything that
00:12:26concerns political harmonization
00:12:30of legislation, i.e., adoption of laws,
00:12:33implementation of reforms.
00:12:36I would say that it is precisely that sensitivity of the European
00:12:39Commission that has been on the side of Bosnia and Herzegovina so far, but
00:12:43the European Commission has never lowered its criteria. Today we are
00:12:46required to fulfill obligations that need to be
00:12:49implemented. Unfortunately, since
00:12:512024 and the adoption of several laws
00:12:55that were partially harmonized with European
00:12:58legal nomenclature, nothing positive has been implemented,
00:13:02except for the agreement with Frontex, the arrival of
00:13:05Frontex at the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the agreement with
00:13:08Eurojust, and this part concerning SP, negotiations
00:13:12are underway, but officially Bosnia and Herzegovina has not yet entered
00:13:15the single euro payment area, uh, so, really,
00:13:192027, which will evidently
00:13:22be a year of new coalitions and government formation after the general elections,
00:13:26should be much better, much more positive when it comes to
00:13:30European integration, we cannot look at
00:13:33it paritocratically now, which political parties are for or
00:13:36against European integration, we need a general
00:13:40consensus regarding all European
00:13:43processes, and it should be known that this must be a state priority,
00:13:47not the priority of one, second, third political
00:13:51option or some first, second, third, or fourth
00:13:54political. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Judicial reforms
00:13:57are crucial, somehow representatives of the European Union always talk
00:14:00about them when they are here, and so do representatives of the domestic
00:14:03government. It is clear what needs to be
00:14:06adopted, but the laws have been in procedure
00:14:10for years, those amendments to the Law on the
00:14:13High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council that were adopted then two
00:14:16or three years ago, were supposed to be just
00:14:20the beginning and we should have already had a new law on the High Judicial
00:14:23and Prosecutorial Council, however. However, it was on the agenda of several
00:14:27Council of Ministers sessions, after that
00:14:30in the state House of Peoples and the House of
00:14:34Representatives and the House of
00:14:38Peoples, so how to look at it now, how much
00:14:42those laws that were there, because there were several forms, how much are they
00:14:45actually harmonized with the rules of the European Union,
00:14:49what can we expect at all, when can we expect their
00:14:52adoption, first of all, the law on the HJPC which is needed
00:14:56in Bosnia and is needed to the extent that it is fully
00:14:59harmonized with the principles of the Venice Commission,
00:15:03and then which is fully harmonized with the European legal
00:15:06acquis that truly brings to the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:15:10a law where the holders of the most important
00:15:13judicial institutions, i.e., functions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, will
00:15:16be able to have
00:15:20everything disclosed, so that there is nothing
00:15:23hidden when it comes to either property records or the integrity
00:15:26of judges and prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the part that relates
00:15:30to the Law on the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina should
00:15:33therefore establish a more efficient mechanism
00:15:36of jurisdiction. of the judicial, or rather court
00:15:39process within Bosnia and Herzegovina. Probably the
00:15:42non-adoption of these two laws was politically unacceptable for
00:15:46certain political representatives, because
00:15:48so many times it was in parliamentary procedure and in
00:15:52the House of Representatives and the House of Peoples both the law on the
00:15:55HJPC and the law on the court, but it was not adopted, so they were adopted
00:15:58in one form and then had
00:16:01certain amendments to the law on the HJPC which partially satisfied
00:16:05certain demands of the European
00:16:07Commission some three years ago, but it was
00:16:11then clearly detected and stated by the European Commission that a new law on the HJPC
00:16:15would be needed in a year, yes, in a year, and
00:16:18since then three years have already passed.
00:16:21The basic foundation of accession to the European Union are
00:16:24precisely human rights, judiciary, fight against
00:16:27organized crime, corruption, media freedom,
00:16:31all of this in Bosnia and Herzegovina is marked as
00:16:34negative in this report of the European Commission which was
00:16:38published today. Uh, what is positive is that
00:16:42Frontex was signed and this agreement with Eurojust and
00:16:45several other judgments that were in
00:16:48the meantime, but truly much more negative was detected that
00:16:52marked this period of one year until this
00:16:55report, only 12 laws were adopted in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia
00:16:59and Herzegovina in the period of this annual report that was presented
00:17:02today, which is certainly disastrous. There was also no
00:17:05agreement regarding the appointment of the chief negotiator, here we also had
00:17:09the adoption in the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly
00:17:13that actually the representatives should appoint a new negotiator,
00:17:16not the Council of Ministers, in order to actually avoid
00:17:20SNSD's votes, what kind
00:17:23of person should that person actually be, what kind of negotiator should be
00:17:26representing and negotiating on behalf of Bosnia and
00:17:30Herzegovina, and how do you view this situation that he was not
00:17:33appointed? First of all, the chief negotiator should not and must not
00:17:36be a political
00:17:39megaphone of any political party, coalition, or
00:17:43a part of the state or completely, so
00:17:46it must be truly an individual
00:17:49who knows very well the legislation of the European
00:17:52Union itself, uh, the constitutional structure,
00:17:55complexity, intricacies of decision-making in Bosnia and
00:17:59Herzegovina, who has a sensitivity for making
00:18:02compromises, dialogue, who is
00:18:05a highly professional person... who truly from a technical
00:18:09aspect knows thousands and thousands of pages of European
00:18:12legislation that will be negotiated in the negotiation
00:18:15process. Of course, when we talk about the chief negotiator, he will not
00:18:19be alone there as an individual, the chief
00:18:22negotiator will have his deputies, he will have his heads
00:18:25of negotiating chapters and most importantly, establish a very
00:18:29expert, so a structure that will deal with the negotiation
00:18:32process, uh, we had unfortunately this situation that
00:18:36we did not reach... a compromise on who should appoint the chief
00:18:39negotiator, but for example, within
00:18:43uh the government of the Republic of Croatia, when Mr. Drobnjak was proposed as the chief
00:18:46negotiator for Croatia with the European Union, then the
00:18:49government sent the proposal to the Parliament and the Parliament of,
00:18:52of the Republic of Croatia confirmed Mr. Drobnjak as the chief
00:18:56negotiator, I understand that it was desired to avoid SNSD's so that
00:19:00it would be that only the House of Representatives would not be confirmed in the House of Peoples,
00:19:04so but you see what illogical actions brought us.
00:19:07so illogical political moves, uh, I don't see that
00:19:11the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina or the European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina gained anything from
00:19:15some adventures into which
00:19:17the previous state coalition
00:19:20embarked, we are talking about the method of dismissal, so
00:19:24you now have two ministers in the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina who were
00:19:27dismissed in the House of Representatives, but for their further dismissal
00:19:31the confirmation of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina is required, to embark on such
00:19:35an adventurism and on the other hand to bring the state into
00:19:39complete blockade was unacceptable, so that
00:19:42strategy proved to be without a solution, then we came
00:19:46to a situation where we have been stagnating for two and a half years now, not a single law
00:19:50has been adopted, we are not talking only about the negotiator, since
00:19:532022, the meeting of the management board for
00:19:57IPA has not been held, so IPA cross-border cooperation that Bosnia and
00:20:00Herzegovina has and has used in the past
00:20:04due to the non-appointment of the national IPA coordinator, we have not been able to
00:20:07appoint a coordinator for monitoring the funds that will
00:20:11come from the growth plan. And also we have not been able to
00:20:15ratify, sign financing and
00:20:18credit lease instruments concerning the growth plan. So, these are all
00:20:22certain shortcomings, in addition to these two laws, the law on the HJPC and the law on the
00:20:26court, which are waiting for adoption so that we can
00:20:29finally start our negotiation process.
00:20:32Started that screening phase, which is an analytical review of legislation
00:20:36by the European Commission. Where the European Commission will clearly
00:20:39identify areas that need to be harmonized with the European legal
00:20:43nomenclature within the European legal acquis of Bosnia and
00:20:46Herzegovina. And that process takes approximately up to 18
00:20:50months according to estimates, it can be even earlier, then it goes into
00:20:54clusters and opening, we will talk about that in a little more detail, what awaits
00:20:57us, what could await us after that, however, we
00:21:01somehow always talk about what could have been done, what
00:21:05was not done, what is it that the European Union
00:21:08demands from us and crucially, what everyone
00:21:11emphasizes is that we
00:21:14did not get access to that money from the growth
00:21:17plan, how much money has Bosnia and Herzegovina not
00:21:21taken so far, it could have, what could it have
00:21:24done with that money? Well, we
00:21:27haven't taken practically a single euro of that
00:21:30money, we didn't have, we had uh
00:21:331.8 billion euros uh was the allocation for Bosnia and
00:21:37Herzegovina, the current indicative funds are
00:21:39976 million euros,
00:21:42of course we have a reduction of 10%, that is 108 million
00:21:46euros, when the reform agenda was not
00:21:49sent to Brussels on time, and currently
00:21:52Bosnia and Herzegovina is in a situation where it could permanently lose
00:21:56373 million euros by
00:21:59December 31 of this year,
00:22:03if some of the measures from the reform agenda, and there are
00:22:06113 of them, are not implemented by
00:22:09December 31, again with a certain tolerance period
00:22:13from the European Commission. So, we are on the verge
00:22:17of permanently losing an additional 373 million euros that were
00:22:20planned for Bosnia and Herzegovina, that is truly
00:22:23money that is much needed by our state,
00:22:26which would certainly go
00:22:30towards strengthening digitalization and the rule of
00:22:33law, and human rights, judiciary,
00:22:36economy, infrastructure, economy, green
00:22:39agenda, sustainable connectivity, so all of this is detected as
00:22:43insufficient within Bosnia and Herzegovina and
00:22:47media, unfortunately we are losing that... money precisely because
00:22:51of all this that we have witnessed over the past two and a half years, and
00:22:54we have entered a new phase, until now this was not the case, but for the last two
00:22:58or three years, uh, we due to our
00:23:02behavior, I would say, and the non-adoption of what should have
00:23:06been adopted by Bosnia and Herzegovina, we are bearing
00:23:09the consequences in the financial domain which until now
00:23:12were not the case, let's not
00:23:16comment on the situation regarding Moneyval, difficult payments.
00:23:20difficult transactions, so these are all gradually instruments that
00:23:23are starting to directly affect the life of every
00:23:27individual, every citizen within Bosnia and Herzegovina, so these are no longer
00:23:31just political messages or political
00:23:34some losses in the domain of just reporting,
00:23:38the report is presented and it precisely lists what was not done,
00:23:42or what was done, but it is now specifically
00:23:45reflected in the
00:23:46lives of
00:23:49citizens. citizens and entrepreneurs will actually pay the most and
00:23:53that is precisely why do you feel
00:23:56that the adoption of these laws, everything
00:23:59we have listed during the conversation, that actually
00:24:03it is not in the interest of politicians to
00:24:06adopt them, or is it exclusively the problem that they cannot
00:24:10reach an agreement, but on these issues there is no point in reaching
00:24:13an agreement when the acquis of the European Union should be followed, that's why I'm
00:24:17interested in that interest. We
00:24:20"m, we cannot blame the political establishment in Bosnia and Herzegovina for everything, our
00:24:23decision-making process and such a complex constitutional arrangement as
00:24:27it is is truly complicated.
00:24:30Unfortunately, there are many opportunities for blocking, there are many
00:24:34instruments, mechanisms that we witness, not only in
00:24:38the past four years, not only the past two years, but for
00:24:41over 20 years, so
00:24:45that way of organizing the state
00:24:48creates certain problems when it comes to European
00:24:51integration, but again on the other hand, I don't see
00:24:55any reason or justification for any political
00:24:58representative from any of the three constituent peoples in Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:25:02and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be against European integration
00:25:06against the benefits that improve
00:25:09the socio-economic standard of every citizen
00:25:12of the peoples living here.
00:25:14It is possible that with certain interests, some
00:25:18policies have an objective and clearly
00:25:22an agenda to obstruct everything that concerns
00:25:25the progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina, not only towards the European
00:25:29Union. In the report published today, we also have
00:25:32an alarming warning regarding the public
00:25:35radio and television service of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the issue
00:25:38of BHRT. So, these are all some items
00:25:42that evidently create problems
00:25:45uh in the further path of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards the European Union. I don't see
00:25:49any desire or enthusiasm to resolve
00:25:52that as soon as possible. Up until now, statements have been quite
00:25:55declarative and much is said about
00:25:59European integration, but when it comes to the adoption
00:26:02of these crucial laws, when it comes to laws on the judiciary that will
00:26:06strengthen integrity, transparency, when
00:26:09it comes to other laws that concern
00:26:13finance and everything that in a certain way
00:26:16places us in a European organized society,
00:26:20we see that it truly does not pass, that it is difficult
00:26:23to discuss it, especially to reach
00:26:27some compromise, here at the end, let's just
00:26:30connect, somehow they... "for years, the biggest
00:26:34culprits, have been
00:26:36politicians from SNSD, the government
00:26:40in Republika Srpska and the loudest in statements when it
00:26:44comes to the European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina is Milorad Dodik, who is
00:26:47now exclusively the president of the party,
00:26:50several times even after the new general elections, he said
00:26:54that Bosnia and Herzegovina remains on the European path, but that this European
00:26:58path is not a priority,
00:27:00now it seems likely that..." SNSD will remain in power, that it
00:27:04will form it together with HDZ, and yesterday he
00:27:07said that the European Union has actually been working
00:27:11for years to dismantle, as he said,
00:27:14the entities, and that now he wants the European Union to talk
00:27:18to the entity of Republika Srpska, how do you view that, today
00:27:22Marta Kos also said that the European Union will have
00:27:25to look for some other models when it comes to Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:27:29precisely because of this complicated arrangement. which we
00:27:33talked about? It is difficult to find a new model because the methodology
00:27:37of enlargement of the European Union has been clearly adopted by the institutions
00:27:40of the European Union and the path of accession to the European Union is known.
00:27:44It will not be that simple to individually isolate
00:27:47someone and give a special standard
00:27:51by which accession will take place in the future within the European Union. That
00:27:54statement, I can comment on it by saying
00:27:58that it is dual, meaning we remain committed to the European path, but it will not be
00:28:01a priority. So, "if it is not a priority, then
00:28:03really no one is on that European path, and
00:28:07here we need to explicitly emphasize a
00:28:10very important fact, no one here from the European
00:28:14Commission is working to reduce the competencies
00:28:18of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian entities, but the European
00:28:21Commission is asking for a clear approach
00:28:25of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the negotiation process.
00:28:28This means that whoever is the main negotiator and negotiation
00:28:31structures. First of all, a compromise agreement will have to be made
00:28:35within the system, within Bosnia and
00:28:38Herzegovina, a negotiating or coordination mechanism,
00:28:41all that needs to be negotiated must be agreed upon, then with a unified stance,
00:28:45go before the chief negotiator, the one that
00:28:49the European Commission will determine. I don't think such
00:28:52statements really contribute to any
00:28:55improvement, but again, we cannot now
00:28:59say in advance whether in the future
00:29:02in the new, so coalition, all this regarding
00:29:05blockades and this process will continue. You know, times are changing,
00:29:09mhm, uh, we expect certain changes,
00:29:12of course, uh, today we had
00:29:16the results for the US Congress, where
00:29:18the Democrats won
00:29:22a majority in both houses, meaning in the Senate in the American
00:29:25Congress, uh, that could be a prelude to the next presidential elections,
00:29:28in two years, I'm saying that it will now... somehow reflect that the situation will change neither in Europe nor
00:29:32to sad... nešto reflektirati da će se mijenjati situacija niti u Evropi niti
00:29:35in the Western Balkans in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but
00:29:39we certainly need to follow, first of all, our most important foreign policy
00:29:43priorities and partners should be the European Union itself, the United
00:29:46States of America, and then all, therefore countries with which we have
00:29:50good, therefore, diplomatic bilateral cooperation. We
00:29:53will certainly follow that, somehow everything changes from moment
00:29:57to moment. Thank you very much for your time. Thank
00:30:00you.