Bosnia Hertegovina

Tarik Sadović nije više ministar sigurnosti BiH. Četvrta je to personalna promjena u aktuelnom sazivu Vijeća ministara BiH. Smjena Sadovića kao niti ranije kadrovske promjene neće državnu vladu učiniti efikasnijom. Ministri su samo eksponenti svojih stranaka koje imaju potpuno suprotstavljene koncepte funkcioniranja države, a samim tim i Vijeća ministara BiH.

SARAJEVO Vijeće ministara BiH utvrdilo je jučer prijedloge izmjena zakona o Sudu i Tužilaštvu BiH kojim se produžava mandat međunarodnih sudija i tužilaca do kraja 2012. godine, ali samo onima u Apelacionom odjelu u predmetima ratnih zločina. “Izmjenama Zakona o Sudu BiH produžava se mandat međunarodnih sudija do 31. decembra …

SARAJEVO Vlasti SAD označile su ministra sigurnosti BiH jednim od kočničara usvajanja zakona o borbi protiv terorizma. Ova je ocjena jedan od razloga navedenih u zahtjevu za smjenu ministra sigurnosti BiH, koju je Predstavničkom domu parlamenta BiH jučer obrazložio predsjedavajući Vijeća ministara BiH Nikola Špirić.

Due to sudden health problems, EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn has canceled his scheduled meetings in Sarajevo on Friday, EU officials confirm. During his three-day tour of the Balkans, Rehn visited Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia. He arrived in Sarajevo on Thursday evening and was supposed to meet Bosnian officials and …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Bosnian Serb television RTRS aired on Wednesday (July 22nd) footage allegedly proving crimes committed by Bosnian Muslim forces against Serb prisoners of war in 1994. The video shows General Atif Dudakovic ordering his troops to shoot two captured soldiers dead. Three years ago, Republika Srpska …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) A new survey by Transparency International concludes BiH is the most corrupt country in the region, according to results released on Wednesday (July 22nd). Corruption is widespread both in Republika Srpska and in the Federation of BiH, according to findings collected over the past two …

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) High Representative Valentin Inzko says the so-called Prud process of dialogue among leaders of the three main political parties is basically dead, and is now a process involving more parties, local media reported on Sunday (July 19th). In an interview with Sarajevo-based OBN TV, Inzko …

A year after the wartime president of Republika Srpska was arrested, war victims and legal analysts in Bosnia say it is high time for his trial to begin. Exactly one year since the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Belgrade, it is still unknown when his trial, considered by many as …

The Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) religious leadership and media and many European officials and politicians warn that the EU’s visa-liberalisation plan could lead to the radicalisation of Muslims in Europe and seriously destabilize the entire region. “Bosniaks feel squeezed into a corner from which they do not see a way out. …

Genocide, mass graves, excavations, bags of bones, endless burials, denials despite the facts, politics and a general lack of humanity continue to characterize the annual 11 July Srebrenica memorial services, Anes Alic comments for ISN Security Watch. The bulk of news on Bosnia in the western media since the war …