ZAGREB, April 4, 2018 - Bosnia and Herzegovina has entered an "alarming" political period that could get additionally dangerously complicated as political parties are evidently not willing to change electoral legislation to ensure the regularity of elections scheduled for October, said a local coalition of nongovernmental organisations called "Pod lupom" (Under Scrutiny), which monitors the regularity of the election process in the country based on the model of Croatia's GONG NGO.
ZAGREB, April 3, 2018 - Former Croatian president Stjepan Mesić has declined to accept the title of honorary citizen of Sarajevo and will not visit the Bosnian capital on April 6 when the city authorities still plan to confer the honour on him despite his refusal, the Dnevni Avaz newspaper said on its website on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, April 3, 2018 - Human Rights expert Dunja Mijatović of Bosnia and Herzegovina took up the post of Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, April 2, 2018 - Croatian member of the European Parliament Tonino Picula has said that ignoring the presence of Wahhabis and other radical Islamic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) can only lead to making them stronger and pose a threat first and foremost to Bosniaks.
ZAGREB, March 29, 2018 - The EU's Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lars Gunnar Wigemark, and US Ambassador Maureen Cormack on Thursday issued a joint statement calling on local politicians to reach agreement on amending the country's electoral legislation in line with the Constitutional Court's ruling in a case filed by Croat politician Božo Ljubić so as to protect the rights of all constituent peoples in the election of deputies to the Croat-Bosniak entity parliament's upper chamber called the House of Peoples, and warning that otherwise a serious political crisis could break out.
ZAGREB, March 27, 2018 - Slovenia hasn't decided to expel any Russian diplomats following the Salisbury case, Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec said, while Bosnia and Herzegovina's Foreign Minister Igor Crnadak told the Klix web portal that his country would not join other Western countries in expelling Russian diplomats due to the poisoning of a Russian spy in Great Britain.
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ZAGREB, March 23, 2018 - Croatian Defence Minister Damir Krstičević and his Bosnia and Herzegovina counterpart Marina Pendeš agreed at talks in Zagreb on Friday to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries' armies so that they could respond more efficiently to natural disasters and accidents.
ZAGREB, March 20, 2018 - Members of the Russian motorcycle club Night Wolves, that is close to Vladimir Putin, will not back down from coming to Bosnia and Herzegovina even though their leader Alexander Zaldostanov has been banned from entering the country and proclaimed a threat to national security.
ZAGREB, March 17, 2018 - The foreign ministers of six Western Balkan countries aspiring for European Union membership (WB6) confirmed in Sarajevo that their governments would continue to implement the reforms necessary for EU membership and that they would work on strengthening stability and cooperation in the region.