At a joint press conference with the Chairperson of the Council of Ministers, Borjana Krišto, following the Second High-Level Political Forum on European Integrations of BiH in Brussels, he stated that additional progress in reforms and key commitments is necessary.

The European Commission is prepared to recommend to the EU Council to open negotiations once these are fulfilled.
“We hope to come again, say in March, with new progress and hope that negotiations can then commence,” Varhelyi emphasised, as reported by RTRS.