U.N.'s EURFOR to replace SFOR in Bosnia
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The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved establishment of a European-led multinational stabilization force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The World Bank says it will provide up to 180 million dollars to post-war Bosnia over the next three years to support economic and social reforms.
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NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina was officially transferred to a EU-led force at a ceremony Thursday. At the same time, NATO opened a permanent headquarters in Sarajevo.
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Bosnia's Muslim, Croat and Serb  political leaders on Sunday reached an agreement to get the  stalled police reform back on track to fulfill a key condition  for closer ties with the European Union.
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Just over nine years after it first deployed troops to help bring an end to the civil war in Bosnia, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is winding up its peacekeeping operations here and making way for a ...
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The European Union will begin its largest-ever peacekeeping operation on Thursday when it takes over from the Nato mission to Bosnia Hercegovina.
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BLED, Slovenia  - The European Union could change the Balkans at a stroke by giving membership candidate status to countries still uncertain whether the bloc really wants them, Serb Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said on Monday.
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The European Union has invited Kofi Annan as a special guest to its summit next Friday to demonstrate its support for the U.N. secretary-general amid a campaign in the United States to force him out.
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An European Union family web portal was launched today. The aim of the portal is to present the separate EU organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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A U.N. plan to formalize Kosovo's secession may help the hard-liners in Serbia
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"We hope for a continuity. We would like to see the democratic forces of Serbia winning."  By William SchombergLJUBLJANA  - New European Union President Slovenia said on Tuesday it aimed to sign an accord with Serbia that is a first step towards EU membership soon, possibly by the end of this month.But EU enlargement chief Olli Rehn insisted that Belgrade must first meet a condition of full cooperation with the U.N. war crimes tribunal on the former Yugoslavia."I am one of those who believe the SAA should be signed as soon as possible, possibly by the end of this month, but some of our colleagues have to be persuaded this is a good idea," Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel told reporters. Read more
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ISTANBUL -- The European Union's decision to start membership talks with Turkey gives the Muslim country a new position in Europe and the Islamic world, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said yesterday.
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BRUSSELS (BBC News) - The EU expects Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Albania to have signed initial deals paving the way for eventual entry into the bloc by the end of 2008, EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. "I expect that in 2008 conditions will be fulfilled and thus we will be able to complete Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) with all countries in the region," EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Brussels on Tuesday. He praised Serbia in particular for turning its back on its nationalist past by supporting the work of the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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A European Union force has taken over peacekeeping in Bosnia from NATO for an operation seen as a test of the EU&#39;s military aspirations and credibility.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina High International official, Paddy Ashdown, supports making changes to amendments of the Dayton Agreement.
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BELGRADE, Serbia, Jan. 4 The European Union is to decide whether to accept Serbia along with its mainly ethnic-Albanian Kosovo province or recognize an independent Kosovo. via Earth Times
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United Nations special envoy Martti  Ahtisaari will hand over his plan for the future of Kosovo on  Friday to Serb authorities braced for proposals that will set  the breakaway province on a path to independence.