Mul­tiple na­tion­al­ity as a con­nect­ing factor: Bos­ni­an and EU law com­pared

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Anita Duraković, Jas­mina Ali­hodžić and Jas­mina Berbić ex­am­ine the prob­lems that arise in cross-border situ­ations be­cause many na­tion­als of Bosnia and Herzegov­ina also hold the na­tion­al­ity of an­oth­er state, not­ably an EU Member State. Under the Bos­ni­an Private In­ter­na­tion­al Law Act, they note, do­mest­ic na­tion­al­ity takes pre­ced­ence, and where a person holds two or more for­eign na­tion­al­it­ies the closest con­nec­tion, as­sessed through dom­i­cile or ef­fect­ive na­tion­al­ity, de­cides.