European Union (EU) policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) – in fact in the wider Western Balkans – has been on a declining path since it took over the reins a decade and a half ago.
Now, in cooperation with the United States (U.S.) and Great Britain, it is trying to camouflage this failure by calming the separatists in our country, while at the same time giving free geopolitical victory to Russia’s opponent, “ Bodo Weber and Valery Perry wrote for EUobserver.com.
This was the mission that Angelina Eichhorst, director-general of the EU‘s diplomatic service for Europe, brought to Sarajevo last week, angering pro-European and pro-American BiH citizens and policymakers: teaming up with U.S. envoy Matthew Palmer and squeezing major Bosniak and non-nationalist parties opposition, to accept an agreement on the so-called reform of the election law that would legally and institutionally deepen the ethno-territorial division of BiH.
The former EU High Representative (HR) in BiH, Valentin Inzko, after pressure from the EU and the U.S. to support the agreement they mediated, on the last day of his work, imposed a law against genocide denial and glorification of war crimes and criminals; a completely personal and morally understandable move, but without any strategic framework or support.
