Nezavisne novine: The agreement on future arrangement of BiH will remove the main obstacles for integration of the country in the EU, has been said yesterday by Miroslav Lajčak, the High Representative and a Special Representative of the EU, at the first session of the Parliament for Europe.
"The agreement on arranging the country must be reached. It will remove the main obstacles and constrain suspension in the process of integrations. So, the job of parliamentarians is to resolve the fundamental question on how BiH should look like and offer to the voters what they want in the same time, and that is a faster and more consummate process of the European integrations", has been said by Lajčak while speaking to the members of the state, entity and the parliament of the District of Brčko, gathered in the Parliament for Europe.
The first out of seven planned sessions of the Parliament for Europe, which has been held yesterday in Sarajevo, was attended by Pierre Myrel, director for the West Balkans in the General Directorate of the EC for Enlargement, and the European parliamentarian Eduard Kukan, who as a Minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Parliament of Slovakia, has been involved in the process of association of this country with the EU.
"It is not possible to talk about the integration of this country in the EU if a broad political consensus does not exist. In Slovakia, we had exactly that consensus. It is not possible to prescribe our recipe to BiH, but I think that signing the agreement between BiH and the EU confirms that in your country such consensus does exist", Kukan has said.
Myrel has pointed out that the political agreement of the leaders of Socio-Democratic Party, Party of Independent Social Democrats and Croatian Democratic Coalition of BiH, which has been reached in Odžak, is a good sign, and that is the first time that the initiative and agreement come from political leaders from BiH.
"I invite all political forces to use this agreement, amend it by the new ideas and extend it on all the questions on which the consensus currently does not exist", Myrel has said.
The Parliament for Europe will have its sessions once per month, and it has been based on the goal of promotion of the role of parliamentarians in the process of the European integration of BiH. It is a part of broader politics of the EU, which wants that all the segments of society become active participants of association of BiH with the EU.