Review article
https://doi.org/10.47960/2831-0322.2023.2.27.165
PRE-ACCESSION ASSISTANCE FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON REGIONAL USE OF FUNDS
Sanja Bazina Crnokić
; University of Mostar
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Abstract
Pre-accession assistance, as an indispensable segment of the accession process of every candidate country or potential candidate to the European Union, is an inexhaustible topic of professional and scientific reflection related to research on European integration. In all stages of its relations with the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina used certain financial instruments in different volumes of its absorption capacities. Therefore, the paper deals with the framework of past and current programs in which BiH participates, including an analysis of how EU policies in this area have changed over time, as well as the formal and substantive determinants of the Union’s pre-accession aid instruments. The special focus of the research is on the regional aspect of the offered and utilized potential of this type of financial assistance, that is, a quantitative and qualitative assessment of concrete projects implemented in several counties, all with the aim of grouping existing challenges and improving the utilization of the current instrument in the mentioned areas based on previously learned lessons.
Keywords
pre-accession assistance; Bosnia and Herzegovina; European Union; regional development.
Hrčak ID:
312072
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Publication date:
22.12.2023.
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