Entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Federation trade unions, which say the proposed new law would reduce workers' rights, have announced protests on Thursday when the legislation is expected to be tabled at the Federation entity parliament.

Bosnia's tripartite Presidency on Thursday adopted a so-called Master Plan, which is hoped will help kick-start the reform process and enable Bosnia and Herzegovina to obtain EU candidate status in 2017.

Bosniak delegates to the Council of Peoples in the Republika Srpska assembly on Thursday used their veto powers to block the assembly's decision last week to hold a referendum on the authority of the state judicial institutions and the Office of the High Representative.

Bosnia's Federation entity on Tuesday adopted a reform plan crucial for the country's EU ambitions and discussed its 2015-2018 action plan.

However, concrete action on any of the measures is threatened by the deepening political crisis in one of the country's two entities.

One police officer is dead and two have been left wounded after an alleged Islamist attack in Zvornik, northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The gunman, identified as Nerdin Ibric, parked his car by the police station, got out and opened fire shouting "Allahu Akbar", according to BalkanInsight.

Ibric was also killed in the shootout with police that followed.

The mayor and leaders of a Bosnian Serb town are in hot water for advocating closer ties with Turkey - a country that many Bosnian Serbs see as the international champion of Bosnia's Muslims.

People in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Bosniak-Croat Federation entity marked the country's official Independence Day on Sunday amid continuing disagreements about the referendum to break from Yugoslavia in 1992.

After numerous procedural difficulties, Bosnia's Central Election Commission, CIK, has finalized the appointment of delegates to the House of Peoples, one of two chambers of parliament in the Federation entity, commission officials told Balkan Insight.

Final certification is expected on Thursday after the CIK reviews the appeals it received on Wednesday afternoon.

Dragomir Vasic, a former police chief who is now a lawmaker in the country’s Serb-led Republika Srpska entity parliament, is charged with taking part in the 1995 genocide of Bosniaks.

The House of Representatives in the larger of Bosnia's two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on December 29 adopted a decision on temporary financing of entity institutions for the first three months of 2015, as the annual budget is not yet ready.