Intervjui

A huge burden during my three-years mandate was the fact that former leaders of Bosnian Serbs - Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic - were at large, preventing faster changes in BiH, said outgoing High Representative to BiH Wolfgang Petritsch in the last interview to reporters of domestic media, before leaving the duty on May 27.

Slažem se s mišljenjima mnogih da je nezakonito i neustavno proglašenje Hrvatske samouprave predstavljalo najvecu prijetnju daytonskom procesu. Tisuce vojnika HVO-a je napustilo vojarne, a takoder i jedan dio policijskih snaga se pobunio - Ustavne promjene su povijesni cin za buducnost BiH

Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch, visoki predstavnik medjunarodne zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini, u povodu odlaska s te duznosti - na kojoj ce ga naslijediti poznati britanski politicar lord Paddy Ashdown - iznosi bilancu svojeg mandata

I would assess the past three years as a great success that should be credited not to myself but primarily to my partners from the International Community as well as the Alliance. The indicted war criminals at large, the third GSM operator and non-implemented economic reforms are the three biggest failures which the outgoing High Representative for [...]

Wolfgang Petritsch is leaving the position of the High Representative of International Community in BiH at the end of May. In a farewell interview given to Vecernji List he talks about Croat political pluralism in BiH, the coming elections, his successor Paddy Ashdown and the people he politically retired by his decisions.

Reform of the BiH judicial system is one of the main tasks of Matthias Sonn, German ambassador carrying out the duty of the Senior Deputy High Representative. Upon the decision by the Steering Board of the Peace Implementation Council dated February 28, he has been chairing the newly formed Task Force for the Rule of Law. That team is co-ordinating [...]

This is not the end of changes to the unusual setup of BiH - By refraining from voting, the SDA showed it was wrong – You have so many levels of government that it is questionable whether you can afford it. The Sarajevo Agreement on implementation of the Constitutional Court’s decision on the constituent status of peoples on the whole [...]

I have noticed that in BiH there is a clear distinction between the people who make a lot of money and the rest of the population. If the activities, undertaken by the Head of the RS Tax Administration, Milica Bisic, could be replicated in some other places, this country would stand on its feet much faster

This is the first in a series of interviews in which we search for the ‘consciences’ of countries in the shadow of Europe. The series sheds light on the troublesome quest of nations at Europe’s border seeking full integration into the established Europe. In Europe’s periphery, we hear complaints about lack of attention and l [...]

The Agreement on implementation of the Decision on the constituent status of peoples in accordance with the decision of the BiH Constitutional Court is not at an impasse. It is not threatened and there is no risk that it will fail or be abandoned. It contains very explicit instructions for those who should implement it as to what they should do and [...]