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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.

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.

Ratko Mladic Posters Appear on Belgrade Streets

On the day that Bosnia's presidency members visited Serbia, posters with the image of war crimes convict Ratko Mladic and the logo of a banned far-right group were pasted on walls in Belgrade.

Every Third Woman in the EU has been the Victim of Violence

Every third woman in the EU has been the victim of violence in some form. This shows an analysis of Eurostat.

For the EU, about a quarter million of a violent sex crimes are reported in 2016, with one third of them - nearly 80,000 - raped.

Bosnia Federation Govt Torn Between Police and Pensioners

Around 150 policemen gathered in front of the regional parliament Tuesday, demanding that legislators reject a proposed law on pensions which they say would lower their retirement payouts by 30 per cent. 

Croatia Commemorates 26 Years Since Vukovar's Fall

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Thousands of people from all over Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Croats from abroad, came to the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar on Saturday to commemorate the fall of the town in 1991 and mourn its victims.

Bosnian citizen dies in mass shooting in United States

Edin Mrvoljak, a 48-year-old citizen of Bosnia-Herzgovina, is among three people killed by a fellow worker at an office park in Baltimore, US state of Maryland.

The Belgrade-based daily Blic is reporting, citing Sarajevo media, that the shooter was an African American.

Vucic: Serbia ready for trilateral meeting with BiH, Croatia

BELGRADE - Serbia is ready for a trilateral meeting of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnia and Herzegovina officials, which could perhaps be the most significant meeting for the three countries and the entire Western Balkan region, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Monday.

"You don't bully Dodik - you get his friends in Belgrade"

"If you want Milorad Dodik to do something, you will not get it done by bullying him from Brussels," says a former high representative for Bosnia.

Instead, Paddy Ashdown recently told an inquiry organized by the British Parliament's Foreign Policy Committee, "you get it done by getting his friends in Belgrade."

Bosnian Law Banning Segregated Schooling Faces Obstacles

The government in Bosnia’s Federation entity is supporting legislation to ban the segregated ‘two schools under one roof’ system, but there are doubts whether the entity parliament will pass the law.

46 pct of Serbians willing to fight for their country - survey

Serbians have placed tenth on a list of 28 European nations whose citizens are willing to fight for their country.

According to a WIN/Gallup International survey, the nations in Europe's south and west are in the bottom part of this list.

Finns top it with 74 percent, followed by Turks (73 percent), Ukrainians (62 percent), Russians (59 percent).

Balkan Religious Minorities Still Feel Excluded, US Says

Despite progress in terms of legislation safeguarding equal rights for all religious minorities, most Balkan states still discriminate against some groups and lag behind in returning property confiscated by communist regimes, the US State Department said in its 2016 report on Religious Freedom, released on Tuesday.

Half of All Bosnians Live Outside Bosnia

There are at least two million people living abroad who originate from Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to data from the countries in which they live and from Sarajevo's diplomatic missions abroad.

According to the data, published in a report on migration trends by Bosnia's Security Ministry, Bosnian citizens mostly emigrate to Germany, followed by Austria, Croatia and Serbia.

Serbia's Bosniak Council Accused of Celebrating Separatism

The Bosniak National Council in Serbia was criticised on Tuesday for announcing it will mark the centenary of the adoption of the Sjenica Declaration, a 1917 document that called for the secession of the mostly Muslim-populated Sandzak region from Serbia and Montenegro.

Serbia gets EUR 19.9mn for BiH, Croatia refugees

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The Assembly of Donors have approved another EUR 19.9 million tranche for Serbia for the housing of refugees, Ivica Dacic announced on Monday.

The acting PM and foreign minister spoke as he opened the meeting of the Regional Housing Program.

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