“HEINRICH BÖLL” FOUNDATION: RECOMMENDATION OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION UTMOST FORM OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BIH CITIZENS
July 21, 2009
Section: B&H News
“Heinrich Böll” foundation sent an open letter to the president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, and director of DG Enlargement Unit for Western Balkans and head of European Commission in BiH Dimitris Kourkoulas, due to leaving out BiH from the recommendation on visa regime termination.
”Recommendation of the EC is an utmost form of discrimination against citizens of BiH who posses one and only Bosnian citizenship”, said the letter.
The foundation also stated that after the failed politics of EU during the war in BiH and failure to prevent the genocide over Bosniaks in Srebrenica in July 1995, 14 years later the same EU brings a decision to further isolate BiH.
This open letter in just a few hours was signed by more than 80 civic society organizations form BiH and neighboring countries.
