Speeches
07/05/2011
Opening Remarks by EUSR Valentin Inzko at a Meeting of Generation BiH for Europe In Which Young BiH Citizens Presented Key Policy Proposals to the Authorities
What we are witnessing today is an exciting new development in BiH politics. After nine months, the main political parties have still not managed to form a Council of Ministers, yet Generation BiH has produced comprehensive and actionable proposals on key policy areas in the space of three weeks!
07/04/2011
Opening Remarks by EUSR Valentin Inzko At a Session of Citizens for Europe On Solutions to Mass Unemployment in BiH
Bosnia and Herzegovina needs a political breakthrough. I think all political leaders of this country would acknowledge this. The present politics of disagreement has delivered little in concrete terms to the average citizen, other than perhaps high unemployment and low living standards.
06/16/2011
Opening Remarks by High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko Broadcast to Parliamentary and Government Energy Experts From Saarland and Bosnia and Herzegovina
The study visits organised under the EU’s Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Instrument – commonly shortened as TAIEX – offer practical expertise in implementing EU legislation – a key element for success in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s integration effort with the European Union
06/16/2011
Remarks by High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko At a Panel Discussion on the European Perspective of the Balkans
The priority in Bosnia and Herzegovina today is to form a coalition government urgently that can tackle the economic crisis and get the country back on the road to Europe.
06/15/2011
Opening Remarks by High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko at Plenary Session, Citizens for Europe
I will speak only briefly because the emphasis at meetings of Citizens for Europe is on what citizens have to say and recommend to the authorities, and on what the authorities, in turn, promise to deliver to citizens. However, I would like to stress at the beginning of today’s discussion that agriculture and rural development constitute a sector wh [...]
06/06/2011
Remarks by HR and EUSR Valentin Inzko at a Conference Organised by the EU Institute for Security Studies and the BiH Foreign Policy Initiative on the Integration of Balkan Countries in the European Union by 2030
I particularly wanted to participate in this conference because the main themes – including identity, civil society and the challenges of uneven economic development in the region – are crucial for taking the Western Balkans into the European Union, and also for resolving some of the major difficulties that Bosnia and Herzegovina is currently exper [...]
06/03/2011
Opening Remarks by HR and EUSR Valentin Inzko at the Inaugural Session of “Generation BiH for Europe”
First of all, thank you for agreeing to participate in this two-day conference. I believe that the discussions that will take place here and the proposals that are formulated can generate radical change in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
05/10/2011
Speech by High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko at the United States Institute for Peace
Our discussion today is timely because Bosnia and Herzegovina currently faces one of the most serious crises since the end of the war in 1995, in which the fundamentals of the state and its constitutional order are at stake. Seven months after the general elections, a coalition of parties in the BiH Parliament has yet to emerge to form a state-leve [...]
05/09/2011
Speech by High Representative Valentin InzkoTo the UN Security Council
Thank you for giving me the opportunity today to present my fifth report as High Representative and the 39th report altogether
05/02/2011
Speech by High Representative and EU Special Representative Valentin Inzko“Bosnia and Herzegovina between Dayton & Europe: Current & Future Challenges”French Institute for International Relations
Let me begin by thanking the French Institute for International Affairs for providing a forum for today’s dialogue.