Bosnia Hertegovina

Since Bosnia and Herzegovina has not met the conditions for extending the standby agreement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will postpone the agreed sum of EUR 38 million.

SARAJEVO Haris Silajdžić, predsjedavajući Predsjedništva BiH, Boris Tadić, Ivo Josipović i Filip Vujanović, predsjednici Srbije, Hrvatske i Crne Gore, potpisali su juče u Sarajevu, nakon okončanja sesije Igmanske inicijative, zajedničku izjavu u kojoj se naglašava da je strateški interes zemalja zapadnog Balkana ulazak u EU i prihvatanje evropskih vrijednosti. Posebno …

SARAJEVO Parlament Federacije BiH nije usvojio ni nacrt izmjena Krivičnog zakona čije je usvajanje jedan od tri preostala uslova za ukidanje viza građanima BiH. Predsjedavajući Predstavničkog doma Parlamenta FBiH Safet Softić rekao je juče da će izmjene ovog zakona, koji mora biti usklađen sa državnim, biti usvojene do 25. juna …

SARAJEVO, BRISEL Evropska komisija predložila je u četvrtak ukidanje viza za građane Bosne i Hercegovine i Albanije. Prijedlog Evropske komisije treba da potvrde Vijeće ministara Evropske unije i Evropski parlament, stoga se očekuje da će građani BiH bez viza u zemlje šengena moći putovati od jeseni ove godine. Evropska komisija …

The European Commission announced today its adoption of a proposal to lift the visa regime for Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the two countries must still fulfill remaining benchmarks before their citizens can travel without a visa in the Schengen zone.

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Tuesday (May 25th) to discuss the situations in Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). “All … shared the view that BiH’s future lies in Euro-Atlantic structures,” Rasmussen told reporters after the meeting.

The Prosecutor’s Office of the war crimes tribunal in The Hague has revealed new excerpts from general Ratko Mladic’s war-time diaries. They make it evident that the Bosnian Serbs and Croats, with the help of the authorities

In its Wednesday meeting, the European Commission is expected to give its approval of the recommendation for lifting the visa regime for citizens of Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but there are many more steps to be taken before the countries’ citizens can travel freely in Europe without a visa.

The prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has asked for permission to reopen the trial of six former Bosnian Croat leaders, including Jadranko Prlic, due to possession of new evidence.

Reforms in Bosnia remain stalled due to internal divisions, with Bosnian Serbs growing increasingly defiant of the international community and undermining the peace agreement which ended the country’s 1992-95 war, Bosnia’s top international envoy told the United Nations Security Council on Monday.