Bosnia Hertegovina

PACE meets to discuss Kosovo, Bosnia and Albania

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is meeting and will request an urgent investigation of the Jarinje incident. ‘Political Situation in the Balkans’ that will be discussed by PACE today expresses concern over the situation in the region and requests that an objective investigation

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US urges Bosnian leaders to show democratic responsibility and form a new government

The U.S. State Department says it is “disappointing” that Bosnia-Herzegovina is starting its second year with no government. Last year’s election for a central parliament and three members of the federal presidency ended in a deadlock, with no

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EU will provide €96 million assistance for Bosnia

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele has confirmed that €96 million of funding from a special Balkans assistance package will be allocated to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously, Fuele had suspended the allocation after political infighting broke out between leaders in Bosnia’s two semi-autonomous entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, FBiH, …

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Bosnia marks one year without new government

Today marks the one year since Bosnia and Herzegovina’s last general election and the 12th sucessive month that the country has had no newly formed government. In the meantime, the country, which is being run using a technical mandate outlined in the Dayton Constitution, faces plummeting foreign direct investment, rising …

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The Netherlands will withdraw peacekeeping mission from Bosnia by the end of October

The last Dutch peacekeepers in Bosnia will leave next month after a two-decade mission overshadowed by the massacre of thousands of Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. “We are ending the mission at the end of October when the largest part of our troops return home, except for …

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Bosnian political leaders meet to surpass the crisis

Bosnia’s political leaders were to meet on Monday in a bid to resolve the most serious post-war crisis in the country that still has no government almost a year after general elections. After several failed attempts to form a central government in the country divided along ethnic lines into two …

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Bosnia and Herzegovina could lose visa-free status, due to large number of asylum seekers

The Commission has confirmed reports that citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an EU hopeful for which Brussels lifted visa requirements in November 2010, could again be subjected to the cumbersome procedure, due to the large number of asylum-seekers from this country.

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