The political logic that was applied in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the post-war period proved to be unsuccessful and the European Parliament recognized it in four of its resolutions, said parliament member (MEP) Zeljana Zovko addressing the EP's Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) on Wednesday.

“It's good neither for Bosnia and Herzegovina nor the European Union itself if the European Union is tacitly maintaining the inefficient policy created by others in the past”, Zovko said.

“What Bosnia and Herzegovina needs is more of European solutions for the problems the country has been coping with for a long time such as federalisation, rights of the community, territorial rearrangement and legitimate representation,” the MEP added.

Speaking before the committee which among other issues discussed the 2018 European Commission Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zovko assessed as positive that the European Commission accepted some of the EP's recommendations concerning Bosnia adding, however, that this is no longer enough.

Zovko, Bosnian ethnic Croat who is a representative of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and a member of the EP's Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Kosovo, stressed it was important for the Commission to understand one should not take a side among three confronted communities in Bosnia.

“The only right solution is in hands of the three communities and not the European Union. We can give proposals, but it is on leaders of the three peoples to agree on solutions together if they want Bosnia and Herzegovina to survive and hopefully one day move forward,” Zovko concluded.