Bosnia and Herzegovina is at the back of the implementation of the rules that apply in the European Union. The population is waiting for the European future, and the perspectives that infrastructure projects will open. The energy sector is also waiting for millions of euros from the Growth Plan. With money from the European Union, we should finance modernization and improvement projects. And, are there any projects?
The reform agenda was agreed upon and sent to Brussels. Document of unknown content unavailable in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“We representatives in the State Parliament are actually managing to get certain information when it comes to the Reform Agenda as one of the most important documents that determines the European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, points out Albin Muslić, representative of the SDP in the House of Representatives of the PSBiH.
A frivolous approach for a serious offer from the European Union. However, the agenda of unknown content is the ticket to the fund: 700 million euros could be available for energy, energetics and digitization.
“I believe that it will be of the greatest help in probably some recent history that happened in relation to this moment. If these energy projects are not implemented, there will be no withdrawal of funds when it comes to the Growth Plan”, warns Vedran Lakić, Minister of Energy, Mining and Industry of the FBiH (SDP).
There is a lot of work ahead of all levels of government to transform the energy sector, he writes Federal.
“The basic guideline is to go towards the abolition of dirty energy and to push for renewable sources. The authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina are asked to speed up the issuance of permits and thus enable the installation of new plants that would use the sun to produce electricity,” says Muslić.
Obligations are known. However, the secrecy of the contents of the agenda leaves room for doubt that the road to European money is still long. Few who have seen the document notice what is missing. Among them is the measure that treated the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Therefore, even a positive response from Brussels is not so certain.
“I assume, if they are consistent with themselves, that they will return this document for revision with remarks that we generally keep repeating, primarily it refers to this position that this document in which we promise to carry out reforms must also include a text about our obligation to fill the Constitutional Court, that its decisions are respected throughout the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, that the veto be thrown out”, says Safet Kešo, representative SDA in the House of Representatives of the PSBiH.
Bosnia and Herzegovina did not even submit a list of projects that would be financed with money from the Growth Plan. The government is in no hurry to publish the agenda in our languages either. Before Brussels responds, it seems that the document agreed behind closed doors in the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina prevented the loss of another 108 million euros, but in the long run, it is clear that the work is not done. Just not to be close again, but fundamentally still so far away.
