Scientific and Expert Conference Announcement: “European Constitution for Bosnia and Herzegovina”

The scientific and expert conference with international participation “European Constitution for Bosnia and Herzegovina” is taking place on March 14 and 15 in Neum, organized by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, Rector's Council of Republic of Croatia and the University of Mostar, under the auspices of the Croatian National Congress of BiH.

The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina was signed 24 years ago and Bosnia and Herzegovina gained long-awaited peace and a new model of the organization under the formula "two entities for three constituent nations". However, after a series of failed attempts to amend the Constitution, the process of aligning BiH's constitution and its legal framework with international one and domestic values and standards remained the most serious obstacle to the European future of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In order to solve these problems, it is necessary that BiH authorities undertake certain reforms to stabilize the economic and social situation as well as political culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In terms of this, the scientific and expert conference "European Constitution for Bosnia and Herzegovina" aims to go through all issues related to Bosnia and Herzegovina as multinational country of constitutive and equal people and "the others" in context of accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to European Union as well as general capacities of the country for implementation of necessary reforms and achieving European standards.

The Constitution is the most important of all issues. It is necessary to find a solution on how to position the constitutionality and equality within the framework of European acquis communautaire, constitutional practices and theory in the level of EU and its members.  

The analysed topics at the meeting will be the European tradition of federalism and related experiences in overcoming the liberal-communitarian dispute; the possibility of creating socio-political systems that effectively protect individual and collective rights; the comparison of BiH’s political system to the systems of EU countries, constitutional teleology, constitutional law, constitutionalism, issues related to distribution of sovereignty, consensus, international contract law etc.