Bosnien und Herzegowina

EUFOR will temporarily increase the size of its force. This is a proactive measure … .

After the Republika Srpska Assembly passed a set of laws challenging the authority of Bosnia's state-level institutions in the Serb-majority entity, Bosniaks have denounced what they called a 'coup d'état'. 

Republika Srpska leader Milorad Dodik vowed to defy a Bosnian court verdict sentencing him to a year in prison and banning him from holding the presidential office - a ruling condemned by Serbia, Hungary and Russia. 

A court in Sarajevo sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to a year in prison and banned him from politics for six years for his defiance of an international peace envoy's orders, a ruling Dodik warned would radicalize the situation in the country. 

The Security Council today extended until 2 November 2025 the authorization to establish a European Union-led stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as the 15-member Council reviewed the political, security and economic situation in the Western Balkan country.

The local election campaign has begun in Bosnia under tough new regulations imposed by the High Representative, which have already resulted in fines for political parties. 

In the run-up to October's local elections in Bosnia, people have been using a new online platform to report hundreds of instances of hate speech.

[…] Dodik made the comments a day after CIA Director William Burns visited Sarajevo amid what a U.S. government official described to RFE/RL as “worrying secessionist rhetoric and actions.”

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina on July 24 temporarily suspended an election law passed by the National Assembly of Republika Srpska in April, sparking negative reaction by the international community and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission to Bosnia.

A commission set up to recompense relatives of certain Srebrenica genocide victims because Dutch peacekeeping troops failed to protect them has paid out millions of euros in compensation for 611 of the victims’ deaths.