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Balkan Insight (28 June 2022)

Hamza Karcic

Sarajevo

The European Council’s decision to bypass Bosnia is both a disappointment and an opportunity to begin a debate about different options.

For almost two decades, European integration has been one of the dominant themes in public discourse in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Along with the 1992-5 war and its legacy, perhaps no other issue has featured as prominently in everyday lives. Ever since the Thessaloniki Summit of 2003, which offered a European perspective for the Western Balkans(*), Bosnia has been fixated on joining the EU. 

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(*) AVİM considers the term "Western Balkans" to be a politically motivated separatist terminology and insists on the use of the geographical and historical identification "Balkans" regarding the region.