Bosnia Hertegovina

The meeting will be used to focus on the priorities of the Spanish presidency, with special attention put on economic recovery in the EU, strengthening foreign policies and implementing the Lisbon Agreement.

SNSD ne protivi se popisu svih državljana BiH, bez obzira na to da li žive u zemlji ili su u dijaspori, rekao je juče Lazar Prodanović, zamjenik predsjedavajućeg Kluba poslanika SNSD-a u Predstavničkom domu parlamenta BiH. Poslanici su u četvrtak odbacili zakon o popisu u prvom čitanju, između ostalog, jer …

Bosnian Serb leaders voiced their intention to hold a census in the Serb dominated part of the country Republika Srpska following last week’s failure by the country’s central parliament to pass a law that would open the way for a nationwide census in 2011. “Republika Srpska’s government has submitted a …

Montenegrin PM Milo Đukanović thinks that a whole Bosnia-Herzegovina does not have an alternative. He said in Washington on Thursday while giving a lecture at a university that “any secession idea could have tragic consequences to stability of the region”. “Bosnia-Herzegovina must survive and we think that all efforts leading …

Bosnian MPs passed the amendments and supplements to the Criminal Code, which was the last condition before the lifting of the visa regime in the European Union. Thus, the Bosnian parliament met all conditions on the road map for liberalization of the visa regime for Bosnian citizens before the arrival …

Politically speaking, the year 2009 for Bosnia and Herzegovina was a wash, as the country’s leaders failed to meet the majority of requirements for EU and NATO integration. This year’s election could change that, but no one’s holding their breath, Anes Alic writes for ISN Security Watch. Having failed to …

Poslanici SDA i Stranke za BiH u Predstavničkom domu parlamenta BiH uskratili su jučer podršku Prijedlogu zakona o popisu stanovništva u BiH naglašavajući kako BiH treba popisati sve svoje državljane bez obzira na to gdje žive, što nije predviđeno ovim zakonom. Poslanici iz RS podržali su popis insistirajući da se …

Radovan Karadžić has filed an appeal after his request to have British lawyer Richard Harvey dismissed as his appointed legal counsel was denied. Harvey was appointed to represent the former political leader of Bosnia’s Serbs in October 2009, after he boycotted his Hague trial for three days, demanding a postponement …

Bosnia’s State Investigation and Protection Agency, SIPA, arrested on Thursday morning two war crimes suspects, suspected of having committed crimes in the Drvar area of Western Bosnia. Ratko Dronjak, born in 1962, and Dragan Rodic, nicknameed Saula and born in 1963 were arrested according to a warrant issued by Bosnia’s …

An administrative debate in the case of Vojislav Šešelj ensued after the expected suspect did not show up to testify before the Hague Tribunal. Protected witness VS-026 did not come to the court on Tuesday because he recently underwent surgery, and another witness is expected to testify next week. Presiding …