Draft Growth Plan as an Agenda for the Final Destruction of BiH

By NAP: Sifet Kukuruz, legal expert

After Bosnia and Herzegovina failed to agree on and send the Draft Reform Agenda to the European Commission, the domestic political scene has been boiling. This political boiling has not offered a key to solving the problem that arose, but it has brought to the surface the dangerous intentions of those who do not want BiH to exist as a state. Through the Growth Plan, these intentions were finally supposed to be internationalized.

Without the intention or pretense of delving into the complete content of this document, it is enough to look only at the expressed attitude towards the Constitutional Court of BiH as the most important state institution to make a final judgment on its acceptability or unacceptability.

The fact that the document states that parts related to the Constitutional Court of BiH, namely the appointment of judges from the smaller BiH entity and the implementation of all decisions of this judicial body throughout the state territory, have been deleted, and that a law which the Constitutional Court of BiH declared unconstitutional has been included in the document, is sufficient reason not to support such a document, without any justification. Why?

Because the attitude towards the Constitutional Court of BiH also reflects the attitude towards the destiny, or rather the future, of the state of BiH.

The attitude towards the Constitutional Court of BiH shows that the Growth Plan is in fact an agenda for the downfall and final destruction of the state of BiH. By diminishing the importance of the Constitutional Court of BiH and weakening its constitutional position, it is shown that the un/hidden goal of the Growth Plan is in fact the elimination of the last state institution for the defense of the state of BiH.

The Constitutional Court is the penultimate obstacle for the destroyers of BiH

There can be no doubt that the Constitutional Court of BiH is the penultimate obstacle in the defense of the state of BiH, because after the Constitutional Court, no other state body can take over the task of defending the state of BiH.

After the Constitutional Court, the defense of the state of BiH falls only to those who defended the state of BiH with their lives in the period 1992-1995.

It is a devastating fact that, apart from the Constitutional Court of BiH, there is no state institution that has shown the will and readiness to effectively protect the interests of the state of BiH and ensure the application of its will throughout the state territory.

Therefore, the inclusion of a law in the Growth Plan that the Constitutional Court of BiH has declared unconstitutional is a direct attack on the state of BiH, it is a clear message that the state's will does not apply throughout the state territory, and ultimately it is an agreement to establish two independent and legally separate legal and constitutional orders on the state territory.

Furthermore, this practically means consent to the establishment of a "state within a state", because the part of the state territory where the decisions of the Constitutional Court of BiH would not apply would, de facto and de jure, no longer be under the sovereignty of the state of BiH.

Experience has shown that decisions that are not in the interest of the state of BiH are very often made in the Presidency of BiH as a state body. The same or a very similar situation exists with the Parliamentary Assembly and the Council of Ministers of BiH. Only the Constitutional Court of BiH has so far succeeded with its decisions in preventing the destroyers of the state of BiH from realizing their plans.

And that is why the Constitutional Court is of existential importance for the state of BiH, and therefore everything must be risked to preserve the constitutional position of the Constitutional Court of BiH.

BiH has been betrayed by its own institutions

It is a devastating fact that the state of BiH has today been betrayed by its own institutions, which do almost nothing to sanction the undermining of its constitutional and legal order. Many institutions can only be considered state institutions nominally, while some, due to their inaction or lack of action, could also be classified as anti-state.

In such circumstances, weakening the position of the Constitutional Court of BiH is very unserious and irresponsible. Concealing such intentions with the narrative of losing 70 million euros is hypocritical. Moreover, it is very dangerous and compromising to reduce the narrative of BiH's European perspective solely to the financial benefits that BiH's European path brings.

BiH is not a poor country; it has numerous resources and potentials that are quite sufficient for its economic development if BiH is a stable and functional state, and if the rule of law is established and the fight against corruption is developed.

European funds for weakening the state and strengthening entities

In the discussion about the Growth Plan in the public political discourse on the domestic political scene, not a single word was heard about the rule of law. Without the rule of law and the strengthening of state institutions, all the millions and billions in the world are in vain. The Draft Growth Plan indicates the fact that European millions are actually intended for weakening the state of BiH and simultaneously strengthening entities, and this process would ultimately result in the disappearance of BiH as a state and the transformation of entities into states.

The integration of BiH into the European Union is a multi-faceted complex process. Its complexity is determined not only by the defined European requirements and standards that need to be met on this path, but also by the capacity of BiH's institutions to meet these requirements, as well as the perception of this process by domestic politicians.

Based on the statements and actions of politicians that the domestic public has been able to hear and see in the past few days, it is not difficult to conclude that the current government perceives this process exclusively or primarily through access to European funds and millions of euros that will be available to BiH.

Thus, it is shown that the main priority of the current government is millions of euros, not European legal standards, which are hardly discussed. Moreover, the current government is adopting laws on the European path that do not even meet European legal standards and which will need to be "further Europeanized" at some later stage.

In a country where the rule of law has not been established and the fight against corruption has not been developed, it is difficult to expect citizens to feel concrete benefits from millions of euros. Political parties participating in the government, as well as various European economic and financial lobbies and bureaucratic centers, would benefit the most from the non-transparent spending of these funds.

Political animalism and the Bosnian zoon politikon

The perception of BiH's European path by the current government exclusively or primarily through financial benefits shows that current politics in BiH is determined by animal instincts. This animal determinism in political thinking, action, and decision-making implies complete servility characteristic of the animal world, where it is important for an animal to have food and drink, without caring at all for what purposes or whose needs it is feeding, whom it will serve in the future, or what tasks it is preparing for.

If the EU were serious and sincere about BiH's European path, the focus would certainly be on the prior establishment of a stable and functional state, the rule of law, and strengthening the fight against corruption. Without establishing these prerequisites, there can be no guarantee that financial resources will be spent transparently and effectively for their intended purposes.

Allocating and investing millions of euros in a system that is seriously compromised is like pouring water into a leaky container, and only those who have personal gain or certain political benefits from it can do such a thing.

The EU is a suspect conglomerate of interests

And that there is much that is suspect in the alleged Growth Plan, which necessitates the utmost caution, is sufficiently indicated by the fact that in many areas covered by the reform agenda, various global and European centers of power have their interests, seeking through this document only a politically correct way to exploit BiH's resources and natural wealth and to bring the most profitable public enterprises under control.

The period 1992-1995, as well as the processes taking place in post-Dayton BiH, teach us that the EU cannot and should not be blindly trusted.

It should not be forgotten that without the hypocritical attitude of numerous global and European bureaucrats, the destroyers of BiH would not have been present on the political scene for decades. Moreover, some destroyers of BiH are ready to be promoted by certain European bureaucrats as leaders of European integration.