The decision by the officials of Republika Srpska, led by Milorad Dodik, to declare Anna Lührmann, Minister of State for Europe and Climate at the German Federal Foreign Office, a “persona non grata” is a stark reminder of the fact that Dodik will continue to deliberately provoke the EU and the West, assess the interlocutors of EWB.
It is believed that the recent expulsion of Lührmann from Banja Luka, after her meeting with the opposition groups, will make the President of RS even more politically isolated from the EU member states, most notably from Germany and Austria, which have already imposed sanctions on him, the Prime Minister of RS Radovan Višković and the Speaker of the National Assembly of RS Nenad Stevandić “for attacking the constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
