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High Representative Christian Schmidt, who oversees the civilian implementation of the peace deal that ended the Bosnian war, imposed a decision on Tuesday to allocate funds for country's October elections, putting an end to weeks of failed attempts to ensure an adequate budget to hold the polls.

Bosnian people wait in line to vote for the country's general elections in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 12 October 2014. Photo: EPA/FEHIM DEMIR

Over a month after the Central Election Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced that a general election will be held in October, it announced on Monday that it has managed to borrow the money needed for the process.

A European Commissioner on a visit to Bosnia on Friday called for all parts of the country to share the burden of migration equally - in an implicit dig at Bosnia's Serb-led entity, which has refused to host migrant camps.

Bosnia and Herzegovina on Dec. 23 formed a new government 14 months after general elections in October 2018.

Receiving a vote of confidence in the House of Representatives, the new government was formed by the country's largest Bosniak, Serb and Croat parties, who agreed to form the government last month.

The trade chambers of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Greece held a business forum last week, vowing to improve bilateral economic relations and cooperation, the Bosnian Foreign Trade Chamber said in a press release.

If Spain adopts a new historical memory law, the tombs of Croatia's World War II Fascist leaders Ante Pavelic and Vjekoslav Maks Luburic may have to move to less prominent sites, or back to their native Bosnia.

Thousands of jobs in Bosnia, where unemployment is already high, may be in jeopardy owing to continued uncertainly over the future of Croatian biggest private company, Agrokor, which is stuggling with debt and liquidity issues.

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina Denis Zvizdic is meeting Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on Monday.

BELGRADE - The countries of the region should be more united to be of interest to investors from China and other countries and to use the EUR 10 billion that China plans to set aside for investment in the countries of the eastern and central Europe the best they can, Chairman of the Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) Council of Ministers Vjekoslav Bevanda said in Belgrade Tuesday.

Bosnia Prime Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda opened a new stretch of Bosnia's Corridor 5c highway, runing from the southern Catholic pilgrimage town of Medjugorje to the border crossing at Bijaca with Croatia opened on Tuesday.

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