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Questionnaire to assess BiH's readiness for joining EU: PM

Xinhua, October 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will receive a questionnaire from the European Union (EU) in early December this year, BiH Chairman of Council of Ministers Denis Zvizdic said here on Friday.

Zvizdic revealed this after meeting with visiting Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who arrived in Sarajevo on Friday for a two-day official visit to BiH.

Zvizdic said European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn is likely to visit BiH on Dec. 9 and will hand over the EU questionnaire to the BiH authorities.

"(The questionnaire) will presumably have thousands of questions, especially because of the complexity of organization of our country," Zvizdic said.

On Feb. 15 of this year, BiH formally submitted it's application to join the EU.

The EU's 28 member states on Sept. 20 in Brussels accepted BiH's membership application and ordered the European Commission to prepare an assessment of the Balkan country's readiness to join the bloc.

The questionnaire will ask for answers to thousands of queries on the country's suitability to join the EU. It will assess BiH's economy, compliance with human rights and the rule of law and other obligations of a member state. Endit