Bosnien und Herzegowina

The post-electoral political deadlock in Bosnia in Herzegovina has stalled progress towards NATO membership, as political leaders fail to adopt the country’s first Annual National Program, which the Western alliance requires as a condition for activating the Membership Action Plan, MAP.

Bosnian Serb lawmakers voted on Thursday (18 April) to introduce reserve police forces, a move seen as a security threat by Muslim Bosniaks living in Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic.

Six months after elections took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaders of the main parties have agreed on a divide-up of government ministries - but remain deadlocked over activating a NATO membership plan.

A United Nations appeals court on Wednesday increased the 40-year sentence initially imposed on Radovan Karadži?, former leader of the Republika Srpksa region of Bosnia and head of the Bosnian-Serb Army, to life imprisonment.

The larger of Bosnia's two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has formed a new parliament almost four months after the general elections – which could mean the country finally getting a new state government.

Bosnia’s Serb-dominated entity Republika Srpska has appointed Israeli historian and Holocaust researcher Gideon Greif to head its controversial commission probing crimes committed in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war.

[EU's commissioner in charge of neighborhood policy and enlargement negotiations] Johannes Hahn says the rule of law in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) has obviously exhibited shortcomings at all levels.