Alida Vračić, Populari’s Executive Director in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Translated quote from the press article published in German in The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on July 03, 2013. In 2012, Sarajevo-based Research Institute “Populari” has analyzed  the risks and made ​​the authorities aware of the shortcomings. Populari’s Director, Alida Vračić criticized that in approaching the EU policies, authorities of the country often just want to tick off the sheer demands of Brussels, instead of puting efforts to actually meet the standards. This applies to the Animal Welfare Law, adopted in 2009,  as well as to the package of Laws on Hygiene Standards and the Food Industry, approved in 2012. “To tick off EU requirements by adopting European Directives,  but not enforcing them, in practice, means nothing,” complains Alida Vračić. Press Article Frankurter…

Alida Vračić, Populari’s Executive Director in the Media Article was published at the web site of The National and translated at the portal mojevijesti.ba and otisak.ba. Press articles can be downloaded below: Press Article: thenational.ae: “We Have a Different Kind of Islam,” Say Bosnia’s Muslims (.pdf) >>> Press Article: vijesti.ba: “Bosnian Muslims are Closer to the West than the East” (.pdf) >>> Press Article: otisak.ba: Most Muslims in BiH Think that They are Different from Others (.pdf) >>>

Interview with Vesna Malenica, Populari’s Head of Research Quotes from the press article of the German Deutsche Welle TOP STORIES / WORLD / EUROPE “It is absurd that we are discussing right now this topic because this topic should have been discussed Croatia has been working to join the EU for y ears two years ago,” Vesna Malenica of the Sarajevo-based think tank Popularitold DW. She said the main reason politicians have failed to solve this issue is because the government has been fractured ever since the brutal war of the 1990s.The peace agreement that ended that war created what is now a politically paralyzed administration. Political disagreementBosnia is split by two entities, Malenica said, the Republika Srpska, which…