Key findings of the 2013 Progress Report on
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Progress Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina is part of the 2013 Enlargement Package adopted by the European Commission on 16 October. The Commission concluded that BiH has made very limited progress in addressing the political criteria. It noted that a shared vision by the political representatives on the overall direction and future of the country, or on how it should function, remains absent. Despite intensive facilitation efforts by the EU, the country's political representatives could not agree on a solution to implement the European Court of Human Rights judgement in the Sejdić-Finci case regarding discrimination against citizens on grounds of ethnicity.
BiH Census: the first stage successfully passed
For the first time since 1991, and after many years of delay, BiH will have valid information on its population that will open the path for more realistic planning of socio-economic development as well as progress in the EU integration process.
Ambassador Sørensen and senior diplomats visit major excavation sites
The Head of the Delegation of the EU to BiH/EU Special Representative, Ambassador Peter Sørensen, together with the EUFOR Commander, Major General Dieter Heidecker, and senior diplomats visited two major excavation sites in Sarajevo and Prijedor. During this visit, they received briefings about the results of the work so far and repeated their support for this important process.
The visit was organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons, which is providing technical assistance to BiH authorities in locating, recovering and identifying persons missing from the conflicts of the 1990s.
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Should the right to education be free of political, national and religious influence in order to fulfil its role of helping individuals to acquire creativity, knowledge and skill?
Nikolina Cabak
East Sarajevo
Darko Baotic
Livno
Adna Aganspahic
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