Latest News from Bosnia and Herzegovina
President Vladimir Putin will Hold Talks in Moscow with Serbian Counterpart Alexander Vucic
Today, President Vladimir Putin will hold talks in Moscow with Serbian counterpart Alexander Vucic, who is on a working visit to the country until December 20, TASS reports, quoted by BGNES.
New Austria Govt 'Unlikely to Change Balkans Policy'
Austria's new government, made up of the centre-right People's Party and the far-right Freedom Party, has already been the subject of warnings that it might stray from European values, but analysts said they don't expect major shifts in the way the country treats the Balkans.
Russia's late UN envoy posthumously given Serbian decoration
Vucic described the meeting with Putin, that will take place on Tuesday, as "big and important."
On Monday evening, Vucic presented the wife of late Russian Ambassador to the UNVitaly Churkin, Irina Churkina, with the Order of the Serbian Flag 1st Class.
Bosnian Politicians Remain Secretive About Their Assets
The state electoral commission last week put the statements about the assets owned by some politicians back on its website, but critics expressed suspicions about its accuracy because there is no one to check the data.
Only the statements submitted by elected representatives like MPs are on the site; the assets of appointed representatives like government ministers remain private.
Serbia to host field simulation exercise with NATO in 2018
BRUSSELS - In 2018, Serbia will for the first time host a field simulation exercise for emergency situations in cooperation with the NATO Euro-Atlantic Centre for Disaster Response (EADRCC), according to EuropeanWesternBalkans.com.
Serbia has successfully participated in similar exercises in Montenegro in 2016 and in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2017, the portal notes.
Bosnia Raises Excise Taxes to Secure IMF, EU Funds
Lawmakers adopted long-delayed changes to Bosnia's excise law early on Friday after an almost 15-hour-long debate in parliament and amid resistance from major opposition parties, who argued that the price hikes would hit the public.
The move will unblock around a billion euros of development funds for Bosnia, Reuters news agency reported.
Bosnia Serbs Vow to Block NATO Accession Plan
Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said on Thursday that Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity will not get involved in any activities to implement Bosnia and Herzegovina's NATO Membership Action Plan, MAP programme.
Dodik said that this was in accordance with Republika Srpska's declaration on military neutrality, and insisted that all representatives of the entity must abide by it.
Bosnia Still Failing to Address Discrimination Verdict
Eight years after the European Court of Human Rights, ECHR ruled that the Bosnian authorities had discriminated against Dervo Sejdic and Jakov Finci by refusing to allow them to run for the Bosnian presidency because of their ethnicity, nothing has changed, said Sejdic.
Prosecution Challenges Vojislav Seselj’s War Crimes Acquittal
The prosecution asked the UN court in The Hague to quash the acquittal of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and convict him of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
Macedonia will become the 30th member of NATO next year
Macedonia will become the 30th member of NATO next year, said State Department Director for South and Central Europe Matthew Palmer.
"After many years, CFR lists Balkans as problem"
Serwer spoke for the N1 broadcaster in Bosnia-Herzegovina, after the US NGO published its "Preventive Priorities Survey 2017."
Serwer said that he did not think the document should make people in the Balkans "more afraid than they already are."
Bosnia Marks Rise in Illegal Border Crossings
The Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina recorded 605 attempts of illegal border crossings over 2017, with the vast majority being from high migration risk countries. This is an almost threefold increase from 2016, when 218 attempts were recorded.
Western Balkans: A window of opportunity?
WASHINGTON DC - The Western Balkans are back on the agenda in Washington, while negotiations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on resolving the lingering name issue have just got under way in Brussels.
MICT to consider prosecution's appeal in Seselj case
The trial chamber of the Hague Tribinal (ICTY) in March 2016 acquitted the leader of the SRS party on all counts of the indictment, which accused him of war crimes committed against non-Serbs in Croatia, Vojvodina, and Bosnia-Herzegovina - Beta reported on Tuesday.
Brnabic, BiH Presidency members meet
BELGRADE - Serbia strongly supports the development of relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which we see as a key partner, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic told the BiH Presidency in Belgrade on Wednesday.