Bosnia Hertegovina

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 …

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.

The European Union warned Bosnia on Thursday it could lose almost 100 million euros (135 million dollars) of the bloc’s funds for 2011 due to internal political disputes and gave it a few days to agree over the issue. EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele “regrets that Bosnia-Hercegovina is the

Mission to close down by the middle of next year; functions to be handed to EU delegation in Sarajevo. The member states of the European Union have decided to close its 300-member police mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM) by the middle of next year. The decision, which has not …

Ahead of a meeting in Sarajevo on Wednesday, Peter Sorensen pleads with Bosnia’s leaders to let people ‘have an ordinary life’. In a move to nudge Bosnia’s quarreling leaders in the direction of forming a central government, Peter Sorensen, the EU’s Special Representative to Bosnia, met the Bosnian Serb leader, …

A lawyer says a former senior Bosnian Serb official sought by both Bosnia and Croatia for alleged war crimes has fled to Bosnia while awaiting extradition.

Macedonian Defense Minister Fatmir Besimi is to depart on a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Thursday. He will meet with his Bosnian counterpart Selmo Cikotic to discuss bilateral and regional cooperation and security. He will also visit the Macedonian contingent within the ALTHEA mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has sentenced Momcilo Perisic, formerly a general with the Yugoslav Army, VJ, to 27 years in prison for crimes committed in Sarajevo, Srebrenica and Zagreb.

A fresh round of talks to decide on the formation of a new government in Bosnia and Herzegovina has failed to achieve consensus, eleven months after the country’s population voted. Leaders from Bosnia’s six largest political parties gathered in the city of Mostar yesterday to try to find a compromise …

Leaders of the six biggest political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina will meet in Mostar on Monday to discuss the formation of a new state government, eleven months after the country’s last election. Ahead of the meeting, members of two political parties in the Republika Srpska met in the mountain …