ZAGREB, April 17, 2018 - The European Commission on Tuesday issued its latest annual report on the progress of negotiations with the six Western Balkan countries and Turkey towards membership of the bloc.

ZAGREB, April 17, 2018 - In a rather dramatic warning to the European Parliament on Tuesday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that the European Union had to offer Southeast European countries a prospect of EU membership so as to avert a repetition of conflicts like those that occurred in the 1990s.

ZAGREB, April 16, 2018 - The EU-Western Balkans summit, which will be held next month, will not give as strong a message as the one held in Thessaloniki in 2003, but it will clearly emphasise European Union membership prospects for Southeast European countries, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Marija Pejčinović Burić said in Luxembourg on Monday.

ZAGREB, April 14, 2018 - At least 76 nationals of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including women and children, have been killed in war zones in Syria and Iraq in the last few years, and 16 of those who have returned to the country are currently serving prison terms, local media said on Friday.

ZAGREB, April 10, 2018 - Bosniak political parties and associations, together with the Islamic community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, strongly believe that the country can function only as a secular state and resolutely deny accusations that their real plan is to establish an Islamic state – this is the key message of a meeting the chair of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Bakir Izetbegović held in Sarajevo on Tuesday with prominent Bosniak officials and leaders of cultural and non-governmental organisations and the leader of the Islamic community Husein Kavazović.

ZAGREB, April 10, 2018 - Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and the Croat member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina tripartite presidency Dragan Čović held talks in Mostar on Tuesday and on that occasion they expressed expectations that the ruling of Bosnia's Constitutional Court on amending the election legislation would be implemented in a timely fashion to ensure the full equality of all the three constituent peoples in the country.

ZAGREB, April 9, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković will pay a two-day visit to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on Monday he will attend the formal opening of the office of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce whereas on Tuesday he will attend the opening ceremony of the 21st International Economy Fair in that biggest town in Herzegovina, the Croatian government stated in a press release on Sunday.

ZAGREB, April 6, 2018 - Croatia's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Marija Pejčinović Burić said in Sarajevo on Thursday that the Croatian government wants to see Bosnia and Herzegovina as a stable, prosperous and sovereign country in which all three constituent peoples and citizens are equal.

ZAGREB, April 5, 2018 - Members of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) said in Sarajevo on Thursday that terrorism and the migrant crisis are a common problem of EU member states and the Western Balkans which is directly affected and requires a joint and coordinated approach to face those challenges.

ZAGREB, April 4, 2018 - Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the countries of strategic importance to Croatia and that is why relations with it need to be intensified, Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić said at the start of her two-day official visit to Sarajevo on Wednesday.