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EU Commission chief promises Bosnia flood aid, support for reform on membership path

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Bosnia Declares EU Solidarity in Response to Devastating Floods and Landslides

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International rescue teams have arrived in Bosnia after devastating floods and landslides. At least 10 people are still unaccounted for, many of them in the village of Donja Jablanica. Rescue teams from Bosnia’s neighbors and European Union countries are joining efforts to clear the rubble and find people still missing.

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

International rescue teams arrive in Bosnia after devastating floods and landslides

LA Times

An aerial view shows the area destroyed by a landslide in Donja Jablanica, Bosnia, on Saturday. Rescue teams from Bosnia’s neighbors and European Union countries on Sunday were joining efforts to clear the rubble and find people still missing from floods and landslides that devastated parts of the Balkan country. Bosnia sought EU help after a heavy rainstorm overnight Friday …

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4 months ago

Baby girl among 10 migrants dead in Balkan river tragedy

The Hindu

“A nine-month-old baby girl and her mother were among 10 migrants who died when their boat capsized crossing a river that divides Serbia and Bosnia,” rescuers told AFP as a search continued Friday. Police said the boat was carrying around two dozen migrants when it flipped on the Drina River near Ljubovija in Serbia early on Thursday. The number of …

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9 months ago

EU leaders agree on opening membership talks with Bosnia, but with many strings attached

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders agreed in principle Thursday to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before talks can begin. His action could prompt leaders of the Bosniak population to bolster their own capacity to protect their interests and possibly lead to violent conflicts that could overwhelm peacekeeping …

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9 months, 1 week ago

European Union's executive branch to recommend that members open accession negotiations with Bosnia

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

German foreign minister visits Bosnia, urges Western Balkans join EU in face of Russian aggression

Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Germany’s foreign minister said Tuesday that Western Balkans countries joining the European Union is a “geopolitical necessity” that would make Europe stronger in the face of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. “I would like all six countries in the Western Balkans to be able to join,” Annalena Baerbock said while visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina. “The …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Ukraine gets good news about its EU membership quest as Balkans countries slip back in the queue

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia received positive news on Wednesday about their quests to join the European Union, but countries in the volatile Balkans region that have waited years longer to become members of the world’s biggest trading bloc appeared to slip back in the queue. In a series of reports on countries wanting to join the bloc’s ranks, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Ukraine moves forward in its EU membership quest while Balkan hopefuls slip back

LA Times

Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia received positive news Wednesday about their quests to join the European Union, but countries in the volatile Balkans region that have waited years longer to become members of the world’s biggest trading bloc appeared to slip back in the queue. The European Commission lauded Ukraine, which Russian troops invaded last year, saying that the government “has …

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1 year, 1 month ago

European Commission’s chief tells Bosnia to unite in seeking EU membership

Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The European Commission chief on Wednesday urged Bosnia to speak “with one voice,” regardless of the country’s different ethnic groups, so that it can move forward toward joining the European Union after gaining candidate status last year. The remarks by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen came as she wrapped up her tour of Western Balkan …

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1 year, 6 months ago

The West has lost the plot in the Balkans

Al Jazeera

The recent escalation in Kosovo demonstrates the US and the EU have adopted a dangerous strategy of appeasing expansionist Belgrade. In 1989, as Slobodan Milosevic seized power in Belgrade, he imposed a new constitutional regime on Kosovo and turned the region into a veritable police state with ethnic Albanians stripped of virtually all civil liberties. In Serbia’s regime-aligned media, the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Bosnia: Protest over draft law to recriminalize defamation

Associated Press

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Dozens of journalists and rights activists protested Tuesday outside parliament in Bosnia’s Serb-run part as lawmakers debated whether to advance a contested law which critics say would restrict freedom of expression and silence critical media. The head of a Bosnian Serb journalists’ association, Sinisa Vukelic, said during the protest that, if the law were approved, “news reporting …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Bosnian war survivors share survival tips with Ukraine

Associated Press

GORAZDE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Residents of eastern Bosnia’s city of Gorazde do not need imaginations to understand the suffering of Ukraine’s people. They specifically wanted any “drawings, photographs, video recordings or anything else” about the “miniature power plants” used in Gorazde back in the 1990s. It was placed on the riverbank, next to Gorazde’s central bridge, in 2016 to serve as …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Bosnian war survivors share endurance hacks with Ukraine

The Independent

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1 year, 11 months ago

Chechens in Bosnia seek to dodge Russian military draft, reach European Union

Firstpost

The ethnic Chechens gathered near the Maljevac border crossing, in northwest Bosnia’s Krajina region include families with children. However, Croatian border guards mostly appeared to be turning them back Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina: A group of ethnic Chechens fleeing Russia arrived in Bosnia this week, hoping to use the Balkan country as a launchpad to reach the European Union and avoid getting …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Chechens in Bosnia seek to dodge Russian draft, reach EU

The Independent

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2 years ago

European Union agrees to give Bosnia candidate status

The Hindu

EU countries agreed Tuesday to grant Bosnia "candidate status" to join the union, diplomats told AFP, putting the volatile Balkan nation at the start of a long road to membership. European affairs ministers meeting in Brussels gave the green light to Bosnia becoming a candidate after the bloc's executive arm in October recommended that they launch the membership process. "It …

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2 years, 1 month ago

The Netherlands won't single-handedly block Bosnia from becoming EU candidate member

NL Times

The Netherlands is no longer opposed to the European Commission's proposal to make Bosnia-Herzegovina a candidate for EU membership. But, there are also arguments in favor of candidate membership, wrote Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra in a letter to the Tweede Kamer. Last month, the European Commission decided that Bosnia should become a candidate for membership, even though it does not …

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2 years, 1 month ago

EU revisits Balkans to win friends, seek more influence

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — The European Union is in the midst of yet another goodwill trip through the Western Balkans to drum up support for the bloc and to make sure that Europe’s historical tinderbox is not about to pick the side of hostile Russia or strategic rival China in the world of geopolitics. During her whirlwind six-nation tour, EU Commission President …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Putin meets Bosnian Serb separatist leader, praises Serbia

Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia — Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday days after he endorsed Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine, Russian and Serbian media reported. Dodik, a Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency, has frequently met with Putin, especially ahead of elections when he wants to show to the highly pro-Russian Bosnian Serb …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Bulgarian political crisis casts shadow over Balkans summit

Associated Press

BRUSSELS — Leaders from the Western Balkans expressed frustration Thursday that they are still waiting in the European Union’s wings even as candidacy bids by Ukraine and Moldova were swiftly embraced by EU leaders. Bulgaria’s parliament passed a no-confidence vote Wednesday in the coalition government of Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, putting up a new obstacle to the long-delayed start of …

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2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Western Balkans’ promised EU future still hazy

Associated Press

BELGRADE, Serbia — European Union leaders will seek to offer support this week to six Western Balkan countries that have long been knocking at the bloc’s doors, and now see the war in Ukraine raging not far from their borders amid fears Russia could turn its sights on their region. The two-day summit starting Thursday in Brussels is expected to …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Germany to redeploy troops to Bosnia over ‘stability’ concerns

Al Jazeera

Foreign office says, ‘we together with our European and NATO partners will not allow a security vacuum in our immediate neighbourhood’. ‘A security vacuum’ Bosnia lies hundreds of kilometres from the fighting in Ukraine, but faces an increasingly assertive Bosnian Serb separatist movement that analysts say has at least tacit support from Moscow. With Bosnia’s Serb leader Milorad Dodik increasingly …

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2 years, 9 months ago

After Ukraine, Europe wonders who is Russia's next potential target in asserting regional dominance

Firstpost

Russian President Vladimir Putin “has said right from the start that this is not only about Ukraine,’’ said Michal Baranowski, director of the German Marshall Fund’s Warsaw office. As Ukraine puts up stiff resistance to the two-week-old Russian attack q, Baranowski said “it’s now not really clear how he’ll carry out his other goals.” But the Biden administration is acutely …

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EU Commission chief promises Bosnia flood aid, support for reform on membership path

Bosnia Declares EU Solidarity in Response to Devastating Floods and Landslides

International rescue teams arrive in Bosnia after devastating floods and landslides

Baby girl among 10 migrants dead in Balkan river tragedy

EU leaders agree on opening membership talks with Bosnia, but with many strings attached

European Union's executive branch to recommend that members open accession negotiations with Bosnia

German foreign minister visits Bosnia, urges Western Balkans join EU in face of Russian aggression

Ukraine gets good news about its EU membership quest as Balkans countries slip back in the queue

Ukraine moves forward in its EU membership quest while Balkan hopefuls slip back

European Commission’s chief tells Bosnia to unite in seeking EU membership

The West has lost the plot in the Balkans

Bosnia: Protest over draft law to recriminalize defamation

Bosnian war survivors share survival tips with Ukraine

Bosnian war survivors share endurance hacks with Ukraine

Chechens in Bosnia seek to dodge Russian military draft, reach European Union

Chechens in Bosnia seek to dodge Russian draft, reach EU

European Union agrees to give Bosnia candidate status

The Netherlands won't single-handedly block Bosnia from becoming EU candidate member

EU revisits Balkans to win friends, seek more influence

Putin meets Bosnian Serb separatist leader, praises Serbia

Bulgarian political crisis casts shadow over Balkans summit

EXPLAINER: Western Balkans’ promised EU future still hazy

Germany to redeploy troops to Bosnia over ‘stability’ concerns

After Ukraine, Europe wonders who is Russia's next potential target in asserting regional dominance