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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.
"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."
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 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.