Yes – as the ongoing Stabilisation and Association Agreement negotiations demonstrate. But acceding to the EU is a demanding process which requires from the aspiring countries continued and determined efforts over years. It is expected that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s continued progress in the Stabilisation and Association Process will progressively render EU crisis management instruments currently present in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUSR, EUFOR, EUPM) unnecessary.

The Dayton Peace Agreement was instrumental to stop a dreadful war. It also provided Bosnia and Herzegovina with the basic elements for its normalisation, including with a Constitution. But current constitutional arrangements will need to evolve in order to make Bosnia and Herzegovina a more democratic, functional and viable country, better able to respond to the requirements that the EU integration process entails.