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Southeast Europe
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reforms. This includes delivering on the Reform Agenda measures, create jobs, strengthening of rule of law and improving the quality and efficient of public administration. It also includes adopting the necessary country-wide strategies, such as on agriculture, in order to benefit from extensive EU financial assistance. This, instead of a divi- sive rhetoric, will contribute to move the country closer to the EU and, above all will directly benefit citizens of Bosnia & Herzegovina,” Hahn said in the statement.
Meanwhile, Bosnia’s tripartite presidency issued a statement after a meeting with Hahn, saying
that the country will meet its obligation to com- plete a questionnaire on its readiness to join the EU by the December 15 deadline.
Bosnia formally applied for EU membership in February 2016 and was hoping to get candidate status in 2017. However, disagreements between the institutions of the country’s smaller entity
– Republika Srpska – on the one side, and the Muslim-Croat Federation and the central level authorities on the other have threatened Bosnia’s European future several times and have led to significant delay in completing the questionnaire.
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