A great majority of the Bosnian population supports the membership in the European Union, said Bosnia Presidency member Sefik Dzaferovic, speaking at a panel discussion on the EU enlargement within the 16th Bled Strategic Forum on Wednesday.

Addressing the event, Dzaferovic made a reference to an earlier speech by European Council President Charles Michel, who was speaking about the EU from the aspects of economy, freedoms and security.

“That is what my country also needs, that is what Bosnia and Herzegovina needs. All its citizens want that,” said Dzaferovic.

He noted that Bosnia has all the reasons that other aspiring countries have had or still have to join the EU.

“There is a very important thing, that membership of the Western Balkan countries in the EU would make relative some issues that we refer to as to the Balkan stubbornness. To make relative overall relations in the Western Balkans, and to make relative the issue of borders, which are absolutely unchangeable,” said Dzaferovic, adding that the EU membership would make life easier in the Western Balkans.

He concluded by quoting the European Council President as saying: Western Balkans needs the European Union but European Union also needs Western Balkans.

Zeljko Komsic, the Presidency Chairman, also addressed the panel, speaking about Bosnia's constitutional system.

Asked if it was possible to organise the country without the element of constituent peoples, he said it was.

“Fundamental part of the system should be an individual and his or her rights. If you protect them, you will protect everything that a multiethnic society needs to protect. Nobody will be less of a Bosniak, Serb, Croat, Roma or Jew if we give up on the principle of constituent peoples and turn to European values,” he said.