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Bosnia EU bid suffers blow as police reform halted

Bosnia's long journey to EU membership on Wednesday suffered a major setback on Wednesday (14 September) as the Bosnian Serb parliament voted down a key police law necessary to start official talks with Brussels on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement.

The parliament of the Republika Srpska, the ethnic Serb entity within Bosnia-Herzegovina, by a large majority rejected an EU plan for police reform which would allow police forces to cross the border between the Republika Srpska and ...

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The EU currently deploys its own police force in Bosnia (Photo: Nato)

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