Deputy Speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Čović participated yesterday in Ljubljana in the 'Summit of the European Union and the Western Balkans' organized by the European People's Party (EPP).

The summit, which brought together EPP leaders from the European Union and the Western Balkans, addressed the EU perspective for Southeast European countries, as well as EU-SEE region relations.

At the Summit, Čović gave a speech on the current situation and the EU perspective of B&H, emphasizing the key changes in the B&H Election Law and limited constitutional changes.

He particularly highlighted the worrying rhetoric that destabilizes the foundations of B&H, noting that "B&H can only survive as a multiethnic and multicultural community of constitutionally three equal constituent peoples and all its citizens represented by legitimate representatives."

He referred to the Mostar Agreement, which, as he pointed out, is an example to be followed in amending the Election Law.

He also pointed out that the implementation of that Agreement is being avoided, and warned of the practices of outvoting and the rhetoric of advocating for the deletion of ethnic determinants.

Čović said that without agreed changes to the electoral legislation, there will be no conditions for holding the General Elections next year, emphasizing that the representatives of the Croat people in B&H want to preserve the Euro-Atlantic perspective and the homeland of B&H.

On the sidelines of the Summit, Čović held working meetings with numerous EPP officials, including EPP President Donald Tusk, Aleksandar Vučić and Boyko Borisov, stated the B&H Parliament.