Bosnia's government

Bosnia fears the negative affect on its important metal industry if the EU faces an oversupply of steel and aluminium as a result of its trade dispute with the US.

Arcelor Mittal Zenica, Bosnia's larger steel exporter, believes joint efforts with Bosnia's government should secure free trade for Bosnia with the EU, which takes 30 per cent of its exports.

Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, will withdraw its consent to a strategy for rural development of Bosnia for 2018 to 2021, if Bosnia's government, the Council of Ministers, does not meet some of its demands, the RS government said on March 30.

A report on freedom of speech and the state of media, which Bosnia's government, the Council of Ministers, adopted on Thursday, and which BIRN has obtained, highlights the problems facing the media in the country.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Friday said Serbia had never questioned Bosnia's territorial integrity or interfered with its internal affairs, and that would be the case in the future as well.

He was speaking after meeting the chairman of Bosnia's government, the Council of Ministers, Denis Zvizdic, on the second day of his two-day visit to Bosnia.

Bosnia's government, the Council of Ministers, has instructed state institutions to start preparingfor an increased influx of refugees following concerns that migrants could establish new routes through Bosnia to Croatia and the EU, Security Minister Dragan Mektic said.

The main route of refugees and migrants runs though Greece, Macedonia, Serbia to Hungary.