Bosnia and Herzegovina - along with other Western Balkans countries – was identified as a potential candidate for EU membership during the Thessaloniki European Council summit in June 2003.

Since then, a number of agreements between the EU and Bosnia and Herzegovina have entered into force - visa facilitation and readmission agreements (2008), Interim Agreement on Trade and Trade-related issues (2008). The Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) has been ratified and entered into force on 1 June 2015.

Bosnia and Herzegovina applied for EU membership in February 2016.&nbsp;The European Council granted the&nbsp;candidate status to the country on December 2022.

EU - Bosnia and Herzegovina

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AFET Working group on Western Balkans  - Exchange of views with Marta Kos, Commissioner for Enlargement on the state of play of the enlargement process with regard to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia

6th EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee meeting

EP Plenary session - Recent devastating floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, including the EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee and the EU-Kosovo Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee Constitutive meeting

4th EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina Stabitisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (SAPC)

EU-Western Balkans Summit: Doorstep by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

2022 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina: Opening statement by Paulo RANGEL (EPP, PT), Rapporteur, and by and by Olivér VÁRHELYI, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

EP Plenary session - 2022 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina

2022 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina: MEPs debate

2022 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina: Closing by Olivér VÁRHELYI, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement and by Paulo RANGEL (EPP, PT)

Commemorating Srebrenica 28 years anniversary: statement by Roberta METSOLA, EP President

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Borjana KRIŠTO, Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina - arrival, welcome and roundtable

EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package: MEPs debate (part 1)

EU-Western Balkans relations in light of the new enlargement package: opening statement by Oliver VARHELYI, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

Infoclip: Future of the European Union

2021 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina: opening statements by Michael GAHLER (EPP, DE), Rapporteur and by Janez LENARČIČ, European Commissioner for Crisis Management

EU enlargement to Western Balkans - Political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia: extracts from the debates

Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Šefik DŽAFEROVIĆ , Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Exchange of views with the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina: extracts - AFET Committee

2019-2020 Reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina: closing statements by Ana Paula ZACARIAS, Council of the EU and by Olivier VARHELYI, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

2019-2020 Reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina: opening statements by Paulo RANGEL (EPP, PT), rapporteur, Ana Paula ZACARIAS, Council of the EU and by Olivier VARHELYI, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement

2019-2020 Reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina: MEPs debate

Infoclip: New migration routes - Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Reception centre of Blažuj and Usivak

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