Germany’s armed forces are to continue their deployments in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of international missions, lawmakers agreed on Thursday. The Bundestag, as Germany’s parliament is known, extended the mandate for the EU mission Eufor Althea and for the NATO mission KFOR by a large majority. Up to 50 German soldiers are to ensure […]
Germany’s armed forces are to continue their deployment in Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of an international mission, lawmakers agreed on Thursday. The Bundestag, as Germany’s parliament is known, extended the mandate for the EU mission Eufor Althea by a large majority. Up to 50 German soldiers are to ensure compliance with the Dayton Peace Agreement, which […]
Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser travelled to Sarajevo on Tuesday for an unannounced working visit in an effort to curb irregular migration via Bosnia-Herzegovina to the European Union and Germany. The number of unauthorized entries via the Balkan state has recently risen. Government sources in Berlin said Tuesday evening that topics discussed with government representatives […]
Germany’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser travelled to Sarajevo on Tuesday for an unannounced working visit in an effort to curb irregular migration via Bosnia-Herzegovina to the European Union. The number of unauthorized entries via the Balkan state has recently risen. Government sources in Berlin say more people have been travelling to Germany via Sarajevo since […]
Law enforcement officers in Bosnia have arrested 23 people suspected of belonging to a “global drug kingpin’s inner circle” in a crackdown on criminal networks controlling much of Europe’s cocaine trade, authorities said on Tuesday. Those detained include police and security officials. Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, and Bosnian officials said the suspects […]
(Bloomberg) — Viktor Orban chided Western powers for “meddling” in the affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina as the Hungarian prime minister received an award from a Russia-friendly Serb leader who has called for seceding from the Balkan nation. Most Read from Bloomberg Orban’s broadside, which was largely aimed at the High Representative, Christian Schmidt, comes two weeks […]
BIJELJINA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — In cities along a section of the Drina River, which forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, there are simple, durable gravestones marking the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe. Their often decomposing bodies were retrieved from the Bosnian […]
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica on Saturday to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to promote compassion and dialogue amid the Israel-Hamas war. The gathering was organized by the center preserving memory of Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust — the massacre in the […]
Outgoing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has begun a two-day visit to Bosnia with a stop in Srebrenica, where he paid his respects to victims of the 1995 genocide. The Netherlands has long wrestled with the legacy of the massacre, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust. Dutch troops served as UN peacekeepers in the […]
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Two U.S. fighter jets flew over Bosnia on Monday in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country’s integrity in the face of increasingly secessionist policies of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik. The U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons flew as part of joint air-to-ground training involving American and […]
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Two F-16 fighter jets will fly over Bosnia on Monday to underline U.S. support for its territorial integrity against “secessionist activity” by Serbs at odds with the country’s 1990s Dayton peace accords, the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo said. The overflight will be part of bilateral air-to-ground training conducted along with Bosnia´s national […]