A large delegation of EU parliamentarians stayed in Mostar, on Friday, where they were guests at the panel discussion on ‘EU-BiH relations’ during which they discussed the dangers the country faces 26 years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.

MEP Hermann Tertsch addressed the audience, saying that with their presence signifies the support to one of the “losing sides, 27 years after Dayton”.

“And that is the Croatian community, but the state as a whole is at a loss, because it is moving towards a failed state and we have to stop it,” Tertsch said in Mostar.

EU parliamentarian Ladislav Ilicic stated that the European Parliament “considers the Russian influence through the Republika Srpska (RS) entity to be a great danger, but also the Bosniak unitarism supported financially from Islamic countries.”

“The only path for BiH is the EU, with full respect for the constituency (of peoples),” he said.

After the panel discussion, Slaven Raguz, the leader of the Croatian Republican Party (HRS), also addressed the public, where he said that BiH would enter a huge post-election crisis.

“It is very likely that we will experience another violation of our human, political and civil rights in the elections by re-nominating Zeljko Komsic for the position of Croat member of the Presidency of BiH, and then we’ll be in the situation of repairing the damage, again. This is what I said at our internal briefing, that it will lead BiH into a huge post-election crisis. We’ll experience a crisis, not only in terms of trampling on human rights, but also a practical crisis, because it will not be possible to re-form the Government of the Federation of BiH (entity), the Government of the Herzegovina Neretva Canton… and we will have a third term of the same people,” Said Raguz.

The delegation that visited Mostar consists of Ladislav Ilcic, a Member of the EU Parliament (Croatia), Hermann Tertsch, a Member of the EU Parliament (Spain), Ryszard Czarnecki, a Member of the EU Parliament (Poland), Bogdan Rzonca, a Member of the EU Parliament (Poland), Carlo Fidanza, a Member of the EU Parliament (Italy), Dawid Nahajowski, Coordinator of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (Poland) and Martin Filipov, Coordinator of the ECR Group (Bulgaria).