(No) Road to Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) must take ownership and become an active partner in its European integrations process.

In order to begin next phase of the its way to EU, BiH must take ownership and become an active partner in the process. It has to honestly asses the progress, recognize and learn from the failures, learn how to replicate successes and how to actively participate in policy setting. And at last, but not the least, it needs to put in place the structures needed to fully benefit from the assistance.

This report calls for rethinking of what BiH pursues. It asks to rethink the adequacy of policies set for BiH and the true costs of mismanaged projects.

Through the case study of the transport sector, the report discusses the value of the EU instruments extended to the country, the level of BiH's ownership over these processes, and, particularly important, the relevance of those policies at this strage of the BiH's road to Europe.

The report was developed by 49-FortyNine, Centre for Economic Solutions in cooperation with the Think tank Populari.