Intervjui

Mostar is a black hole, the Bermuda Triangle of Bosnia-Herzegovina, it’s unresolved status damages not only the citizens of that city, but of the whole country, not only internally but also externally. Look, I have already said this to Dragan Čović, Chairman of BiH Presidency: in mid-February you have a very important donor conference on [...]

The Council hasn’t finished its work, it hasn’t even been through half its work. But if there is a campaign, then laws get undermined. I think we need to do the following: we need to leave space for the Council to finish its work. When the Council finishes its part of the work, I am certain that ethnic balance will be respected and that no one will [...]

The parliamentarians hope that they will have pensions ten times higherr than the Federation average and that they can retire after only 20 years of service. That is a disgrace. Disgraceful and scandalous – that is what High Representative Paddy Ashdown said of the initiative of BiH parliamentarians aimed at enacting a law regulating their rights [...]

Good evening! Guest in our first Korak edition in this year is the High Representative in BiH, Mr. Paddy Ashdown. Good evening and welcome! As in previous programs, our public can participate in this program with questions through e-mail and phone. Our tele-voting question tonight is: Can we, alone, without help from international community, implem [...]

High Representative to Bosnia-Herzegovina Paddy Ashdown on Tuesday asked the Chairman of the BiH Council of Minister (CoM), Adnan Terzic, to ensure that the that the Draft Law on Intelligence and Security Agency be sent by the Council of Ministers into parliamentary procedure without delay.

Contrary to my previous trips to Western capitals, this time I did not have to explain and convince some interlocutors that Bosnia and Herzegovina was not a black hole and that changes for better were obvious. It shows that this country has made great progress, and the majority of Foreign Affairs ministers and the majority of the people in the mini [...]

At the end of 2002 I made it clear that the economic situation in BiH was simply untenable. I pointed out that we were spending three times more on imports than we were earning from exports; I drew attention to the appallingly low rate of foreign direct investment – per capita, BiH attracts one tenth of the FDI attracted by Croatia; with unemployme [...]

I’m extremely pleased and enthusiastic about this activity. Of course none of us is going to be completely satisfied with the results nor should any citizen of BiH be satisfied with incremental change. However, the Bulldozer Process is original (a “made-in-BiH” product) and has proved to be amazingly effective. It has given businesspeople in this [...]

Main problems are in the areas of economy and the rule of law. BiH must undergo serious reforms in the fields of fight against the crime and corruption. A lot of funds go into hands of criminals instead teachers, pensioners, health workers and other vulnerable social groups. In order to combat this you need a reform of judiciary which is able to su [...]

After somewhat more than three hours of discussions with the Prime Ministers of both Entities and the State, Paddy Ashdown was satisfied with what he heard from his collocutors when it comes to efforts to bridge the differences over the decision-making mechanisms, headquarters of the ITA and its mode of operation at the state level. - If we had m [...]