Members of BiH’s tripartite presidency kick off a two-day visit in Zagreb on Monday (January 31st). Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic will meet with President Ivo Josipovic, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Parliament Speaker Luka Bebic. This is the first visit to Croatia by BiH presidency members in …
Read More »Republic of Srpska Constitutional Court to decide on Bosniak veto
Republic of Srpska (RS) Constitutional Court is to decide on Monday whether national interest of Bosniaks (Muslims) were threatened. The case relates the election of Aleksandar Džombić as the prime minister of the Bosnian Serb entity.
Read More »Turkey ready to help forming a new government in Bosnia
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told politicians in Sarajevo on Saturday (January 29th) that his country is ready to help the various communities overcome differences that prevent them from forming a government following general elections in October. The region needs the three constituent peoples in BiH to co-exisit, he said, …
Read More »Croat war veterans protest Purda’s arrest in BiH
About 1,500 people gathered in the eastern town of Vukovar on Saturday (January 29th) to protest the arrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) of a Croat war
Read More »Turkish State Minister visits Bosnia
Turkish State Minister Selma Aliye Kavaf visited the Yunus Emre Turkish Culture Center in Bosnian capital city of Sarajevo on Thursday. The Center’s Director General Aida Ozturk presented information
Read More »Bosnia: Tihomir Purda’s appeal against the extension of his detention was rejected
The Court of BiH turned down on Wednesday (January 26th) Croatian war veteran Tihomir Purda’s appeal against the extension of his detention. Dismissing the appeal as groundless, the court upheld an
Read More »Swedish FM urges Bosnia to push forward with reforms
Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who met with Bosnian leaders in Sarajevo on Wednesday, urged the country’s leaders to break through political deadlock and push forward with reforms. Bildt said he hoped Bosnia “won’t be too late” with reforms that need to be adopted in the next few years.
Read More »Bosnia: The main Croat party HDZ submits its platform to the other parties
The main Croat party HDZ BiH submitted its platform Tuesday (January 25th) for the formation of a new majority in BiH’s state-level parliament and a new Council of Ministers. The document is based
Read More »EU’s Sannino stresses that Bosnia needs to focus on necessary reforms
Stefano Sannino, deputy director-general of the EU’s Directorate General for Enlargement, has called on BiH to implement necessary reforms stemming from the EU agenda and to prove it doesn’t need an international
Read More »BiH’s EU integration postponed to March
The EU foreign ministers will likely discuss the next steps in BiH’s EU integration process in late February or March, Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, announced on last Saturday. The ministers were to debate BiH this month but decided to postpone it until the new …
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