By Zoran Krešić
UNTOUCHABLE: international community against the ‘unpacking’ Daytona
According to a survey conducted by the Internet portal News.ba, 88.42% of citizens think that it is time to implement constitutional reforms, 10.3 percent of them did not think so, and only 1.28 percent said they have no attitude. When this is compared with the views shared by local politicians and diplomats, then one can conclude that completely deviates from the thinking of the public, or they direct the attention in another direction.
German Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Hellbach said yesterday that in this country there are no conditions to change the Dayton Agreement and the constitutional reform twenty years after its signature due to the lack of consensus of three national policies on the future of the country.
Brake to the development
“As before (about constitutional changes), irreconcilably collide opposing national constitutional concepts, compromise is not in sight between the different actors in BiH. And without compromise does not go,“ said Hellbach. He explained that the international community will not intervene in discussions about the constitutional reconstruction of BiH. “The policy itself must show the necessary will,” said Hellbach. Instead of constitutional reform, Ambassador Hellbach urged authorities to focus on the implementation of socio-economic measures of the Reform Agenda as part of the country’s road to the European Union. However, these reforms have little chance of succeed and represent a particular type of experiment with no definite outcome, claiming more analysts who believe that the present constitutional order is a break to development of the country. Euro parliamentarian Tonino Picula said that the Dayton Agreement, which an integral part is the Contitution, the land often leads to ‘a schizophrenic situation’.”The Dayton Agreement is an excellent document that ended the war, but it is not good for building a modern multinational state”, said Picula and added that in the context of EU integration we should look for new solutions for the country. He expressed no excessive optimism that the new approach of the EU towards BiH, with an emphasis on social and economic reforms will give results, saying that the biggest problem of the country is related to its constitutional structure.
ISPR’s study
From the Institute for Socio-Political Research in Mostar for “Evening paper” have recently confirmed that they prepared a study that suggests restructuring the country toward its federalization. As might be expected, part of the political elite of Sarajevo and Banja Luka, said that such a thing is not realistic or are strongly opposed by supporting the maintenance of the current situation, which means preserving war booty.
Taken from the portal Večernji.ba
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