Bosnia Hertegovina

The Central Electoral Commission published the final list of candidates for the upcoming local elections scheduled for October 7.More than 30,000 individuals have been registered as candidates for local or municipal elections in Bosnia’s two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska, the Central Electoral Commission, CIK, …

The Hague Tribunal, ICTY, has refused the motion of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to question the former US president Bill Clinton.The ICTY’s Trail Chamber decided that Karadzic could not prove in his motion that Clinton’s testimony would be necessary to the case, or that the information Karadzic …

Bosnia looks likely to miss the EU’s August 31 deadline to resolve the question of the 2009 Sejdic-Finci ruling.The EU “Road Map” for Bosnia – a list of obligations that the country has to meet by given deadlines, given in June in Brussels – is likely to be missed if …

Bosnia’s Foreign Ministry is trying to evacuate as many as it can of around 2,000 Bosnians in Syria – but contact with several families who have sought evacuation has now been lost. The families asked the Bosnian embassy in neighbouring Jordan to help them leave the city of Allepo, currently …

Several Bosnian NGOs wrote to the US Congress and the European Parliament urging them not to support the constitutional changes proposed by the Social Democrats and the Croatian Democratic Union.In a letter sent on Friday, the NGOs explained that the proposed constitutional changes are deeply discriminatory and not in accordance …

The Turkish embassy in Bosnia said on Friday that the Istanbul-based tourist agency that promoted “abortion tourism” in Sarajevo had its licence revoked.The Office of the Counsellor for Cultural Affairs of the Turkish embassy in Bosnia issued a statement saying that the Barracuda Tours has been closed by the authorities …

Nebojsa Radmanovic, the Serb member of the Bosnian tripartite Presidency, has urged the country’s Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, to resign over Bosnia’s UN vote on Syria.Day after his party boss and the president of Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity, Milorad Dodik, had said that all political agreements between the ruling six parties …

Almost 70,000 Bosnian Croats who hold the Croatian passport are likely to leave Bosnia to look for work in the EU once Croatia becomes the union member, says a survey.The NGO “Croatia Libertas” in Bosnia and Herzegovina has conducted a survey asking its Bosnian Croat citizens: “Will you look for …

The Agriculture Minister of the Bosnian Federation entity says that any similarity between his party’s slogan and the one used in a recent agriculture commercial is coincidental.In a marketing campaign entitled “Buy Domestic,” the Agriculture Minister of the Bosniak-Croat Federation, Jerko Ivankovic Lijanovic, encourages the population to buy domestic products. …

Thirteen years after its signing, a border deal between Bosnia and Croatia, although not yet ratified, is the target of criticism by the public and politicians in both countries.Although Bosnia and Croatia share an about 1,000 kilometers long border, they have never ratified the 1999 border agreement signed by two …