POLICY BRIEF

“European Union’s underbelly: problems of integration in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina”

21 OCTOBER, 2025

“European Union’s underbelly: problems of integration in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina”

By Simeon Petković, LLB in European Law

This policy brief will briefly inform the reader on the issues regarding the integration problems of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the European Union, with the reader being free to make parallels with similar scenarios that have played out in other countries or that have the possibility of arising. The brief focuses on the two capital rulings of the European Court of Human Rights for Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) regarding its constitutional rights and, in turn, the almost impossible process of harmonizing B&H’s rights structure with the values of the EU, particularly in the domain of voting rights and elections, and the ongoing constitutional crisis.

European Union’s underbelly: problems of integration in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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