House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina

MOSTAR - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met on Tuesday in Mostar with Deputy Chairman of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina Dragan Covic, who chairs the Croat People Caucus of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The meeting in the Caucus building began shortly before 10 am.

Ljubljana – Faris Kočan, a researcher at the Centre of International Relations at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, believes the results of the general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina available so far indicate time may have come for civic ideas as opposed to nationalism.

After leaving the building, SDA presidency member Alma olo said that no agreement had been reached, that everything else was up for discussion.

According to the local media, they should discuss the possibility of unblocking the work of this body and scheduling a session after almost three and a half months.

Bosnia and Herzegovina will be suspended from the work of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the PACE, for failing to appoint new representatives to that body.

According to the Council of Europe's Rules, member states must nominate new delegations to the Parliamentary Assembly within six months of the day of an election.

Politicians in Bosnia and Herzegovina have already started announcing who will run for posts on the country's three-member presidency in elections not due until October.

They have done so despite the risk that the elections might be postponed, owing to problems with reform of the electoral process.

Due to the crisis between the Federation entity's ruling parties, the [Bosniak] Party of Democratic Action, SDA, the Alliance for Better Future of Bosnia and the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia, HDZ BiH, no budget for 2018 has been adopted by the entity as yet. No budget has been adopted at state level, either.

The main Bosnian Serb party, the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD, has threatened to block the work of Bosnia's long-awaited new state government, the Council of Ministers, which is holding its first session on Tuesday.
 

SARAJEVO - Chairperson of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Barisa Colak met on Wednesday in Sarajevo with Serbia's Ambassador to BiH Stanimir Vukicevic, and discussed the strengthening of political and inter-parliamentary relations between the two neighboring countries, and regional cooperation as part of the EU integration process.

Western powers may take sanctions against the Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, after his party, the Alliance of Social Democrats, SNSD, blocked the decision-making process in the country's state parliament, an EU official told Balkan Insight on Wednesday.