ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF

ACCESSION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO

THE EUROPIAN UNION

Our country obviously isn`t funkcioning for a long time now. We have a chaos in are
judgment, education and health department, economy is very bad. Military practically doesn`t
exist. It has been tehnologicaly overcomed and demoralised with everything that has
happened in the last 20 years. Every year a large number of students graduates and their future
and employment is uncertain. The citizens are unpleased, they have lost every trust in the
goverment and they are mad and angry at everyone. They have lost their motivation. Value
system is patological. In other words this is a country of sad and dissatisfied people. We have
to stop that and I hope that everyone in this country realises that.
Bosnia and Herzegovina looks like a ship without it`s helmsman. The ship that does
not even know where it sails. And while our citizens are more and more dissatisfied someone
who should be dealing with this problem is getting payed for doing nothing. Citizens of
Bosnia and Herzegovina have no more time for waiting a better and more normal life. The
authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have created a junk country from which young people
gladly move to another countries. From the country that has been a Mekka for every
immigrant from the third world coutries they made a Frankestein country that barely
functions.
Only with stability we can bring back the countrys reputation first of all in the eyes of
our own people. As long as it is unstable we shall not live happily or should we respect it.
Regaining the trust in our coutry and it`s institutions is only possible if they show them selfs
as stable and efficiant.
By it`s on act of accessing EU we gain incentive stimulus with which we can change
things and laws, we get a direct instructions and guidelines to harmonize our system with
theirs which are provenly working for at least 200 years. With that harmonization we get that
even a Bosnian citizens enjoy high standards in EU. We can apply for jobs anywhere in first
worlds economy with potential market of almost 450 000 000 extremly highly payed people.
By accessing EU a lot will change to better which we can`t describe in this short text.
Accessing EU shall not give us an instant results. We will not become richer over night. We
have to achive that by our selfs which wont be an imposible misssion with a strong partner as
EU.
In any case we gain more then we lose. I hope that we shall not play smarter then the
countries that are already in the EU. If so I hope it will be shorttermed and that we will have
time for remorse because accessing EU is the only longterm solution for a little country as
Bosnia and Herzegovina is.
IN CONCLUSION:
Advantages:

1. Freedom of people's movement - you can travel, live and work in any EU country without
the restrictions.
2. Single market: there is no import/export taxes while trading between the member states.
3. Subsidies for farming, or on some occasions - for not farming.
4. Common rules for competition in the union enhance the economy, free trade and controls
the creation of monopolies.
5. The creation of single currency increase a stability of countries. As we could see from the
current crisis, the mechanism of helping countries in problem - slowly, but works.

Disadvantages:

1. The countries are loosing a part of their national identity.
2. The huge economical difference between old members and new member states (excluding
southern countries) force the rich member states like Germany, to pay for the economical
mistakes of other countries.
3. The process of legislation in EU is extremely complicated, slow and inflexible, as a result
the EU parlament and Comission is usually late to solve urgen issues.
4. The institutions of EU aren't formed in a democratic way, as only the EU parliament is
elected directly by the europeans. Nobody knows the accountability of Comission, ECB.
5. The weak strategy on foreign policy keeps EU away from important players in international
arena, like China, USA and etc.