Bosnia and Herzegovina

People across BiH headed for the polls on Sunday (1 October) for the country's fifth general election since splitting from the former Yugoslavia. Polls showed that three parties -- the opposition Social Democrats, the centrist Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Muslim nationalist Party of Democratic Action -- enjoyed more or less the same levels of support in the BiH Federation.

In Republika Srpska, the Serb Democratic Party, which was founded by Radovan Karadzic in the 1990s, appeared to be losing ground, paving the way for moderates to dominate the entity's politics. Preliminary results are expected around midnight.

BiH Defense Minister Nikola Radovanovic attended on Wednesday the meeting of the Organization of South East Europe Defense Ministers (SEDM) taking place in Tirana on September 27 and 28, where he signed the document of BiH’s admission to this regional organization in status of an observer.
In his address to the conference, Radovanovic indicated that BiH is a safe zone and that all solutions in the region must be based on stability, instead of becoming possible source of new confrontations.

BiH will be able to use 24 EU assistance programs, which are known as Community Programs.

Coordinator of the Community Programs in BiH is the Directorate for European Integration (DEI), which has implemented the project of support to DEI and other relevant institutions in preparations for participation in these programs.

This concerns the first Twinning Light Project for DEI, which should conclude in early October, and which the Directorate has realized in cooperation with the German Ministry of Economy and Technology and company B.&S.U.