Bosnia's parliament

Besides such abuses, experts also say the procedure could be illegal. "There are some doubts over the legality of what we are seeing happening between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of European law," Italian jurist and migration expert Gianfranco Schiavone told BIRN.

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Bakir Izetbegovic, the leader of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA and a member of the upper house of Bosnia's parliament, said on Tuesday that the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs will ultimately see the security value in joining NATO.

A group of MPs on Thursday filed a motion to Bosnia's Constitutional Court against the excise law adopted in December, which they say was passed in an unconstitutional procedure and with different versions of the law in Bosniak, Croatian and Serbian.

On a visit to Ankara, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic has asked President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to support a Bosnian Croat call to change Bosnia's electoral law to give them more political power.

Bosnia's potential recognition of the independence of Kosovo will not happen and the issue is closed, Mladen Ivanic, the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, said on Wednesday.

Bosnia's parliament will soon vote on a draft law to amend the current law on the financing of political parties, with the goal of increasing transparency.

Bosnia's parliament will vote at the end of April on a draft law proposed by the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZBiH, which may represent the last chance this year to reform the electoral law in Mostar and organise local elections in the southern city.

Imad Al-Husin, a Syrian citizen better known as Abu Hamza, was released on Thursday after having been held without trial for more than seven years in the immigration centre of Lukavica, on the periphery of Sarajevo.

"Our father has just returned home after more than seven years," one of his daughters, Nudzejma Softic, wrote on Thursday on Facebook.

Bosnia's State Prosecution said the recently arrested politician Fahrudin Radoncic put pressure on Azra Saric - a witness in the trial of the alleged drugs baron Naser Kelmendi in Kosovo - so that she would give false testimony, which is why it has sought detention for him for one month.

Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic on Sunday said Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be the first ex-Yugoslav republics to sign a border demarcation agreement.

After meeting the President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dragan Covic, in the town of Tivat, Vujanovic said the agreement would be signed  by the end of August in Vienna.