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"Sealing of borders would overburden W. Balkans"
Austria does not want to simply close its borders and leave the Western Balkan states to deal with the refugee issue on their own, says Sebastian Kurz.
Speaking in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday, the Austrian foreign minister added that instead, his country "wants to find a common solution to the problem."
June Date Set for Release of Bosnian Census
Pieter Everaers, a representative from Eurostat, the European agency for statistics, on Thursday met the three main statistical agencies of Bosnia - the Statistical Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the institute for statistics of Republika Srpska and the institute for statistics of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosnia: Woman arrested for killing three grandchildren
The police in the town of Doboj in the Serb Republic in Bosnia-Herzegovina have arrested a local woman on suspicion that she killed three of her grandchildren.
Banja Luka media are reporting that the woman's intellectually disabled daughter gave birth to the babies, and that they had three different fathers.
Publish 2013 Census Data, EU Urges Bosnia
EU officials have told Bosnia and Herzegovina that it urgently needs to publish the final results of the census it conducted in 2013, after claims by local politicians that Sarajevo could soon apply for membership.
530,000 migrants passed through Belgrade - city official
A city official in charge of refugees, IDPs and migrations has said that more than 530,000 migrants have passed through Belgrade to date.
According to Dusica Popovic, beside these migrants coming from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, there are also 59,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently in the Serbian capital, as well as 9,000 refugees from Bosnia and Croatia.
Bosnians Worry Experts by Shunning Vaccines
The number of Bosnian parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, claiming that it might damage their health, is increasing, experts warn.
Croats Vanishing From Bosnia, Bishop Says
Croats have been migrating en masse from Bosnia since the end of the 1992-5 war, which poses a threat to their continued existence as a national community, Catholic Church leaders say.
7,000 Bosnians Still Homeless after 1990s War
Twenty years after the war ended, more than 7,000 people displaced by the conflict still live in temporary accommodation in ‘collective centres’ throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"GMO legislation stands in way of WTO membership"
Serbia, Bosnia and Belarus are the only countries in Europe that have not joined World Trade Organization (WTO), the Beta agency is reporting.
The main reason, it added, is "the refusal to adopt a new law on genetically modified organisms (GMOs)."
Bosnians Launch Petition Against Serbian Reality Show
The Bosnian NGO, Omladinski Demokratik Pokret (Youth Democratic Movement), is gathering signatures in an attempt to convince the authorities to halt the broadcasting of the Serbian reality TV show 'Farma' ('The Farm').
Croatians Queue for Long-Lost Slovenian Savings
In the corridor of the Zagreb office of Ljubljanska Banka on Wednesday, a crowd of mostly elderly people from all over Croatia waited to apply for the return of foreign account savings that they deposited more than 24 years ago.
Bosnia: Killing of soldiers treated as act of terrorism
Enes Omeragic late on Wednesday in Sarajevo killed two soldiers of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Armed Forces before committing suicide in his home.
The house was surrounded by police at the time.
Two Soldiers Shot Dead in Bosnian Capital
Police in Bosnia's Canton of Sarajevo said a man killed two members of the Bosnian Army inside a betting shop in the suburb of Rajlovac at around 7:30 pm.
The reasons for the attack are unknown but television N1 reported that the attacker shouted the Islamist slogan "Allahu Akbar" before shooting the soldiers. This report has not been confirmed.
Disputes Delay Publication of Bosnia Census
A Bosnian minister has admitted that the elaboration of data collected for the census in 2013 "is not proceeding according to plan.
"We can be sure that we won't be able to publish the results before the end of this year," Adil Osmanovic, the Minister for Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said.
Refugees Start Entering Croatia from Bosnia
Some refugees from the Middle East have started to enter Croatia from neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, opening up a potential new route towards Germany and northwest Europe.