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Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Elections in Bosnia Herzegovina a sclerotic system faced with crisis

General elections were held in Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH) on 2 October. Members of the BiH Presidium (one representative each from the Croatian, Bosnian and Serb communities) and deputies to the lower houses of parliament were elected…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

The political and economic consequences of the flood in the Balkans

The economic consequences of this disaster will be felt in Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina for many years, since neither of them has sufficient funds for reconstruction.
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

First signs of spring in Bosnia

Although the protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina are motivated by economic issues, they pose a challenge to the stability of the political and institutional system.
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Bosnia and Herzegovina an elite in conflict with itself under pressure of the crisis

On 10 February, almost a year and a half after the parliamentary election, a new central government was formed in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The Council of Ministers of BiH, consisting of ten members, will be led by a Bosnian Croat,…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Bosnia and Herzegovina the financial situation forces politicians to reach a compromise regarding the government

Vjekoslav Bevanda, a representative of the Croatian HDZ BiH party, was named prime minister. The cabinet will consist of ten ministers, four of whom will represent Bosniaks, while Serbs and Croats will be represented by three ministers…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

Chinas interest in investing in South-Eastern Europe still growing

On 19 October the Chinese corporation China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group entered into an agreement for access to confidential information concerning the development of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. During that same week,…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

The third energy package to be introduced in the Balkan states Moldova and Ukraine by 2015

Judging from the experience of how the third energy package was adopted in EU member states, it will be extremely difficult for the Energy Community states to implement these regulations within such a short timeframe.
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Bosnia and Herzegovina – an ongoing erosion of the state

The EU is unable to solve the protracted conflict over the establishment of the government in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By pursuing its present policy the EU will not be able to prevent a real disintegration of the state into three…
OSW Commentary | | Marta Szpala

The Western Balkans deadlock in the EU enlargement process

Increasingly serious challenge for integrating the Balkan states is the EU's growing reluctance to enlarge any further. Among other measures, the EU states have blocked the formal acknowledgement of the integration progress, which has…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

The problem with constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina

EU representatives had hoped that as a result of the elections held on 3 October in Bosnia the government elite would be replaced with a team more willing to compromise on changing the country’s political system.