A Different Balkan Story: Op-Ed by High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton
Op-Ed written by Catherine Ashton on the Western Balkans, published in The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune on 25 April.
As much as anywhere in Europe, the recent history of the western Balkans has been written in blood. From its role in igniting the First World War, via the occupation and resistance of World War II, and to the battles and barbarity that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia, the people of the region have suffered enough.
National Integration Programme – a strategic document for the integration process
BiH is the only country aspiring to join the EU that does not have a National Programme for EU Integration - a strategy which would confirm and drive the determination to reform. As a result, the priority given to different EU related reforms is not defined. Problems in the integration process are addressed in an ad hoc basis meaning that BiH is falling behind its neighbours in the region.
It is important to identify the leaders of crime
In an interview for Dnevni avaz, the Project Leader of EU Support to Law Enforcement in BiH, Karl Lesjak, talked about the importance of identifiing criminal leaders.
It is necessary to seize illegally acquired property – We want to establish efficient police capacities and aim at main organisers of crime
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