According to members of a delegation of MEPs and members of the German Bundestag who visited Sarajevo on Sunday, granting EU candidate status for Ukraine and Moldova should also mean that Bosnia would get it.
“We, at least in the European Parliament, are always mentioning that in case there is candidate status for Moldova and Ukraine, we also have to give something to the Western Balkans to show that we can be taken as credible, that our trust is not completely lost,” MEP Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel said.
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She said that this would be granting EU candidate status to Bosnia, as well as opening the negotiation talks with North Macedonia and Albania and giving visa liberalisation to Kosovo, “which they have deserved already for four years now.”
Bundestag member, Boris Mijatovic, said that the policies the leader of the Croat Democratic Union (HDZ BiH), Dragan Covic, and of BiH Presidency member and leader of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), Milorad Dodik, have been promoting represent “a threat to the country”.
However, he noted that “all parties that follow nationalist terms” are a threat to the country.
He commented on a recent resolution proposed in the Bundestag, saying that the document mentions that “all three sides”, meaning Bosniak, Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat ethnic parties are criticised for “politics that follow only nationalist thinking.”
“Because we believe nationalist thinking is the path to separation,” he said.
The delegation will also visit Banja Luka, and its members will attend a special session organised by the National Assembly of Bosnia’s Republika Srpska (RS) entity on Monday.
