Bosnia Hertegovina

Bosnian and many European officials have condemned the European Commission’s proposed visa-liberalization plan for the Balkans as discriminatory against Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) and potentially destabilizing for entire region. “Bosnia and Herzegovina remains on the black list. People are in the ghetto because of visas,” reads the top news headline in …

The European Commission’s Wednesday recommendation to grant a visa-free regime with the EU to Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, but not to Bosnia and Albania, has met strong criticism across the Balkans and elsewhere in Europe. Critics say the EU’s exclusion of Bosnia from the list sends a negative message to …

Bosnia-Herzegovina will start issuing out biometric passports from January 1, 2010 to all its citizens, despite the fact that they will still have to have visas for most travels abroad. Bosnia`s Prime Minister Nikola Spiric presented the new biometric passport at a press conference in Sarajevo on Wednesday. The new …

BANJA LUKA Clashes are possible in Bosnia if the work of state institutions is blocked and the Office of the High Representative closes, warns SDA leader Sulejman Tihić. In an interview with Banja Luka daily Nezavisne Novine, Tihić said that he did not know why his earlier statements had caused …

Aktuelni saziv parlamenta BiH rijetko se bavi svrsishodnim i korisnim stvarima. U protekle gotovo tri godine parlamentarci su mnogo više vremena potrošili na jalove rasprave nego na rješavanje konkretnih problema. Specijalizirali su se za svađe i višesatne rasprave ni o čemu. Poslanicima i delegatima niko ne može zamjeriti nedostatak lucidnosti …

A plan to end EU visa requirements for Serbians but not for Bosnian Muslims who suffered at Serb hands in the bloody break-up of Yugoslavia will deepen ethnic divisions in the Balkans, critics said on Tuesday. The Green group in the European Parliament termed the planned announcement, days after the …

The caucus of Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) deputies in Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity of Republika Srpska are boycotting the local parliament until they are granted equal voting rights. “It is logical that this will lead to the blockade of the work of the [Republika Srpska] institutions, but Bosniaks had no other choice,” …

THE HAGUE, The Netherlands The UN war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict against Bosnian Serbs Milan and Sredoje Lukic on July 20th, the court announced on Monday (July 13th). The Lukic cousins are charged with war crimes committed against Muslims during the 1992-1995 Bosnian conflict. Prosecutors want life sentences …

SREBRENICA Sarajevo media are reporting that a group of men and women associated with Serbia’s Obraz movement shouted offensive slogans in Srebrenica on Sunday night.

On the heels of the latest senior US Congressional delegation visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, yet another diplomatic incident involving senior American officials indicates that US diplomatic efforts in the troubled country are being increasingly snubbed. The US delegation, made of Russ Carnahan (Democrat from Missouri), Mike Turner (Republican from …