Dragan Mikerević

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Dragan Mikerević (born February 12, 1955 in Doboj , SFR Yugoslavia , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Bosnian politician of the moderate Democratic Progress Party (PDP). He belongs to the Serbian ethnic group .

Mikerević received his PhD in 1996 from the Faculty of Economics in Subotica ( Serbia ). In February 2001 he became Minister for European Integration in the all-Bosnian government led by the Social Democrats under Prime Minister Božidar Matić . In 2002 he was rotating chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Bosnian central government. Mikerević was Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska , one of two entities in the country , from January 2003 to December 2004 . He resigned in protest against sanctions which the then High Representative of the international community, Paddy Ashdown , had imposed on the Republika Srpska for lack of cooperation with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Mikerević is married and has two children.