The EU needs Bosnia and vice versa

Tomas Valasek, director of foreign policy and defence at the Centre for European Reform, is concerned about an alarming in situation Bosnia: "The country's central government has not met for more than five weeks and one of its main constituent parties threatens to leave it altogether. This would incapacitate the government and could touch off Bosnia's disintegration. The consequences would be dire, not only for the Balkans but also for Europe. Since the end of the 1992-1995 war, the European Union has provided billions of euros of aid, thousands of peacekeepers and the 'office of the high representative' to restore unity to Bosnia and to set it on the path to EU membership. If the country fragments now, nobody will take EU foreign policy seriously. ... Mercifully, the EU governments are united over the future of Bosnia (which they are not on Kosovo). If they demonstrate resolve, they can convince a majority of Serbs that the EU has more to offer them than Russia."

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