Bosnia and Herzegovina's Constitutional Court has prohibited Republika Srpska from making payments under a foreign lobbying contract and from financing similar work directed at objectives incompatible with the state constitution. The ruling was announced after the court's plenary session on 24 and 25 September. [1]
In case U-10/26, the court linked the dispute to Republika Srpska budget transfers for overseas representations and a September 2025 consulting contract between the entity's Vienna representative and Dickens & Madson Canada Inc. It cited 49 million convertible marks in the revised 2025 budget and 15 million marks in the 2026 budget. [1]
ContextThe court ordered the entity government, assembly and other responsible bodies to halt the related payments. The decision concerns the constitutionality of public spending and lobbying objectives; it does not abolish Republika Srpska or determine criminal liability. Balkan Insight described the prohibited campaign as promoting the entity's independence from Bosnia. [1] [2]