Corridor Vc will join Bosnia and Herzegovina to one of the main intercontinental trade routes
Corridor Vc is a pan-European motorway, railway, and waterway project. The Bosnia and Herzegovina motorway section will follow a route of roughly 300 kilometres from Bosanski Brod/Bosanski Samac via Doboj, Zenica, Sarajevo, and Mostar, to the Croatian border. After the border it will proceed to Ploce. The railway route will follow a similar northeast-southwest [...]
Bosnia officials warn of ‘dangerous’ air pollution
(AP) ZENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — People living in a central Bosnian town have been warned to stay indoors as concentrations of a pollutant in the air are at a dangerously high level. An official air quality monitoring body warned Friday that Sulfur dioxide pollution in the industrial town of Zenica for the past three days has [...]
Bosnian Water Utility Cazin Seeks 4.0 Million Euro Loan from EBRD
SeeNews SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina, SeeNews) – Bosnia’s municipal water and wastewater utility Cazin is seeking a 4.0 million euro ($5.2 million) sovereign guaranteed loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to co-finance a wastewater collection and treatment system project, the international lender said on Tuesday. “Possible co-financing is being considered by [...]
Slovenia voices support for BiH’s EU bid
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — President Danilo Turk voiced his country’s support for the EU integration of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) during a meeting Monday (February 28th) with members of BiH’s tripartite presidency in Brdo pri Kranju. He said that visa liberalisation had positively affected political relations in BiH, adding that EU membership would contribute to the [...]
BiH AND CZECH REPUBLIC SIGN AGREEMENT ON CESSION OF EQUIPMENT FOR SECRET DATA PROTECTION
Agreement between Ministry of Security of BiH and National Office for Security of Czech Republic on free cession of equipment for secret data protection (so called Tempest equipment) was signed on Friday. At the same time a takeover of equipment was done, worth 45.000 KM, Ministry of Security of BiH announced. Agreement was signed by [...]
Lajcak again calls for government formation in BiH
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak said in Sarajevo on Thursday (February 24th) met with leading politicians to discuss the ongoing failure to form a government. Though BiH held regular general elections on October 3rd, there is still neither a government in the Federation of BiH, or a new state-level cabinet due [...]
Czech Government recieves a plaque from European Movement in BIH
Representatives of the European Movement in BiH in the occasion of farewell visit at the Czech Embassy in Sarajevo met with Ambassador Jiri Kudela, who is leaving our country at the end of this month after a successful mandate. The organization’s secretary general handed the plaque of the EM “European Friend of BiH 2009” to [...]
Design a route that does not endanger Pocitelj and Blagaj
BiH Commission to preserve national monuments repeated today the opinion that the authorities should design the route of the corridor 5-C through Herzegovina which will not have negative impact on cultural and historical heritage on that area especially on Pocitelj and Blagaj. The Commission Chair Amra Hadzimuhamedovic reminded today that this Commission has also earlier [...]
Bosnia 2008 growth estimated at 5.42 pct
Bosnia’s economic growth in 2008 was 5.42 percent, slightly less than the earlier projected 6 percent, according to preliminary figures released by the state statistics agency on Tuesday. ‘Nominal gross domestic product in 2008 was 24.716 million Bosnian marka ($18 million), while the real growth was 5.42 percent,’ agency head Zdenko Milinovic told a news [...]
“HEINRICH BÖLL” FOUNDATION: RECOMMENDATION OF EUROPEAN COMMISSION UTMOST FORM OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BIH CITIZENS
“Heinrich Böll” foundation sent an open letter to the president of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Olli Rehn, and director of DG Enlargement Unit for Western Balkans and head of European Commission in BiH Dimitris Kourkoulas, due to leaving out BiH from the recommendation on visa regime termination. ”Recommendation of [...]
