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Majority of young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina would leave the country at the first opportunity for a better education and the chance of a job.Most young people in Bosnia would leave the country for good if they could, because they do not see any kind of future for themselves, …
Read More »Bosnia Urged To Put April Census on Hold
The International Monitoring Operation, which oversaw Bosnia’s test census, has recommended delaying the April census for at least six months.The external body monitoring Bosnia’s 2013 census has advised the authorities to postpone the headcount planned for April on the grounds that the country is insufficiently prepared. Andy McGuffie, of the …
Read More »Bosnia Burns Seized Drugs Worth €10 Million
Security Ministry organises destruction of a ton of various narcotics worth 10 million euro in the first organized mass destruction of narcotics since the war.Around a ton of different narcotics, mostly marijuana and heroin, were burned in incinerators in the southeastern town of Gacko on December 13. Prior to destruction, …
Read More »Grbavica Crimes Stopped in 1993, Says Karadzic’s Witness
The trial of the Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has continued with the testimony of the former president of the Serb Municipality of Novo Sarajevo, Milorad Katic.Testifying on Thursday, Katic said that there were no expulsions of non-Serbs from the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Grbavica from March 1993. Katic said that …
Read More »Bosnia Farmers Fear Milk Export Slowdown
Bosnian dairy farmers ask for more help in achieving EU standards as main trading partner Croatia prepares to enter the European bloc.Milk producers in Bosnia met officials from the country’s Foreign Trade Ministry and Foreign Trade Chamber on Tuesday and urged them to help harmonize domestic product standards with EU …
Read More »Serbia and Bosnia to Sign War Crimes Protocol
After a year long delay Serbia and Bosnia should sign a protocol on cooperation in the prosecution of war crime cases in January next year.The protocol of cooperation in the prosecution of perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide between the Serbian and Bosnian prosecutions should be signed …
Read More »Komsic to Activate Bosnian Party Next Year
Bosnian Presidency member Zeljko Komsic says his new party will be up and running next year, advocating new solutions and the equality of all Bosnians and Herzegovinians.Zeljko Komsic, the Croat member of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tripartite State Presidency, says he is working on the formation of his new party after …
Read More »Illegal Miners Risk Life And Limb To Dig For Bosnia’s Black Gold
W ith an estimated 10 billion tons in geological reserves, coal is a vitally important part of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s economy. Besides supplying local industrial facilities such as steel mills, state mines also fuel all the country’s power plants. More than 80 percent of the country’s coal is taken from open-pit mines …
Read More »Tolimir Found Guilty of Srebrenica Genocide
Zdravko Tolimir, a close wartime aide to the former Bosnian Serb army chief, Ratko Mladic, has been found guilty of the Srebenica genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment.Tolimir, now 64, was in charge for intelligence and security for the Army of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian war. He was one …
Read More »Bosnia Federation PM Seeks Ministerial Purge
The Prime Minister of Bosnia’s Federation entity has asked the President to dismiss eight ministers whose parties no longer form part of Bosnia’s ruling coalition.Federation premier Nermin Niksic visited the entity’s President, Zivko Budimir, on December 10 to push for the dismissal of eight ministers whose parties no longer form …
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