Planing of EU Alignment in BiH: Regional Perspectives and Way Forward

This research aims at providing an analysis of the first Programme for Integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in the EU from a comparative regional experience. The Programme for integration represents a key comprehensive document for EU accession in the complex institutional circumstances of Bosnia after the 2004 Programme for integration.

Adopting an EU acquis approximation programme was one of the 14 priorities of the Analytical report on Bosnia’s application for EU membership in 2019, which has not been fulfilled since.

In addition to the programme being a priority from the opinion on the application, it has been mentioned as an EC recommendation in all of the reports on BiH, including the March 2024 EC assessment, as well as the EC report from October 2024.