Bosnia Hertegovina

Head of the EU mission in Macedonia Peter Sorensen on Wednesday held farewell meetings with Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Poposki. Sorensen left for Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he will be an official representative of the EU. At the meeting with President Gjorge Ivanov the …

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is set to embark on a nine-day tour in four Balkan countries. Kosovo will be Davutoğlu’s first stop, where he will stay from Aug. 26-28 before heading off to Bosnia and Herzegovina for another

The charges against wartime Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic should be split in two trials, according to a request from prosecutors at the United Nations war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on Wednesday.

More than one hundred Bulgarian rangers have been sent to Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission. The Bulgarian servicemen will be assigned tasks related to security and defence at the Butmir base, near Sarajevo.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has not made significant political and social progress over the past four years, US diplomat Thomas Countryman says. The US deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs said that Bosnia is no closer to the EU and NATO than it had been four years ago. He

Former Hague Tribunal prosecutor Geoffrey Nice says the country has a moral obligation to get the World Court to revisit the issue – but others note the existence of formidable obstacles.

A state government in Bosnia could be formed in August, according to Sulejman Tihic, president of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA. Bosnian Croats are not so sure. 

Bosnia’s ten month political impasse since the last general election appears far from resolution as the country’s Croatian parties push for their own candidate to chair the Council of Ministers. 

Author: Anes Alic for ISA Intel. Six Bosnian political parties who won the majority of votes in October 2010 elections and are eligible to form the new government issued a total of 1,373 campaign promises, most of which will remained unfulfilled and forgotten. With 432 elections promises, the main Bosniak …

The government in Priština this week introduced a ten-percent tax on goods coming from Bosnia-Herzegovina, prompting this country to react. Sarajevo said it would file a complaint with the regional free trade organization CEFTA.