Heartbreaking moment footballers collapse and break down in tears on pitch after finding out manager has died mid-match

THIS is the heartbreaking moment Serbian players fell to the turf after discovering their manager had died from a heart attack mid-game. The country was sent into mourning this weekend after Radnicki 1923 manager Mladen Zizovic collapsed on the...

Bosnia’s average net salary drops slightly in August

In August, the highest average net salaries were recorded in the information and communication sector, where they reached 2,155 marks (approx. €1,103), followed by the financial and insurance sector with 2,055 marks (approx. €1,052), and the...

His job is to keep Bosnia peaceful — now he must take on Putin too

No one in global politics has a job quite like Christian Schmidt’s.Sitting in his nondescript grey office block in Sarajevo, wearing an orange paisley tie, he recalled a recent conversation with a friend who is foreign minister of a European Union...

Mahmood Honoured for Media Legacy

Beyond his contributions to British broadcasting, Mahmood has played a pivotal global role in media reform and strategic communication. His work has taken him from Birmingham to Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, advising governments and...

Energy Community’s CBAM Readiness Tracker: Western Balkans still far from exemption as full implementation nears

These efforts signal a growing readiness across the Energy Community to turn CBAM into a catalyst for deeper regional energy market integration and decarbonization, according to the annual report. “The progress reflected in this year’s tracker...

EU supports BiH’s Green Transition through EUR 6 Million Energy Efficiency Project

Bosnia and Herzegovina today took another important step toward a cleaner and more energy-efficient future with the official launch of the EU4EnergyEfficiency project, funded by the European Union and jointly implemented by the United Nations...

Hungary’s Lavish Aid Project for Bosnian Serb Farmers Now Seen as ‘PR Financing’

At the end of 2021, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged 100 million euros for Republika Srpska. At the time of the announcement, the aid sparked public debate in Bosnia and Herzegovina about whether the funds would come with strings...

Tuning Into the Heart of Sarajevo: Divanhana’s Radio Sevdah

Divanhana – Radio Sevdah (CPL-Music, 2025) When Radio Sevdah begins, it feels like stepping into a warmly lit kitchen filled with familiar voices. The static of an old broadcast flickers to life, and suddenly, you are tuned into a living memory of...

Bosnian exports face mounting challenges as German industry slows: FIC

SARAJEVO, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Bosnia and Herzegovina's (BiH) economy is facing mounting challenges as Germany, one of its key trading partners, shows signs of slowdown in its industrial sector, its Foreign Investors Council (FIC) of BiH warned...

The Sound of Freedom: Why MTV was Beloved in the Balkans

Between 1987 and 1997, MTV broadcast as a single pan-European channel before splitting the feed into localised versions. The first Eastern European local channel was MTV Poland in 2000, followed by MTV Romania in 2002. MTV Adria, set up to cover...

More than 50 Thousand Viewers in Cinemas across Bosnia and Europe watched “Testament”

The domestic feature film “Testament – ​​Amanet 2” has been seen by more than 50,000 viewers in cinemas across Bosnia and Herzegovina and Europe in just 12 days since its premiere. As stated in a statement by the distribution company Una Film,...

Sarajevo Canton borrows an additional Five Million Euros for the Ilidza – Hrasnica Tram Line

Representatives of the Sarajevo Canton Assembly have given the green light for additional borrowing based on the amended loan agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), paving the way...

Bosnia’s Competition Council approves conditional takeover of Telemach BH by BH Telecom

Measure 1: The applicant (BH Telecom) must not raise retail prices for fixed telephony, internet, and audiovisual distribution services, nor for existing double or triple packages, beyond the THCI index, calculated as THCI = CPI + X, where CPI...

Consumer basket in Bosnia reaches €1,755 in September

According to the Federation’s Statistical Office, the average salary paid in the Federation of BiH for July 2025, the most recent available data, was 1,628 marks (approx. €833), while the minimum wage, as determined by a government decision,...

Here are the digital changes EU candidate countries are making to align with the bloc

To join the European Union, countries must align with the acquis, the collection of laws, regulations, standards and policies of the 27-member bloc. This includes technology and digital infrastructure requirements, such as digital wallets and...

Serbia’s in a desperate situation after EU decision on Russian gas — Energy Minister

BELGRADE, October 20. /TASS/. Serbia has found itself in a "nearly hopeless situation" following the EU Council's decision to phase-out purchases of Russian gas, Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic-Handanovic announced. "Serbia...

‘Sarajevo’ brings a story of war, memory and reconciliation to Joburg

Sarajevo, a play about three childhood friends, bound by love and fractured by war is currently on at Theatre on the Square in Sandton. The play takes the audience into the year before Yugoslavia’s disintegration (the Bosnian War, from April 1992...

The Consumer Basket In The FBiH amounts to 3.431 BAM

The trade union consumer basket calculated by the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for the month of September 2025 amounts to 3.431.60 BAM. The average salary paid in the Federation of BiH (FBiH) for the...

Bosnia's Serb entity authorities to acquire internet monitoring systems from China and Russia

The company Elinc is owned by the parent firm China Electronics Corporation (CEC), which was sanctioned by the United States due to its links to China's military-industrial complex. It will deliver to the RS government software and equipment for...

Happy 20th Birthday, Energy Community – From Vision to Transformation

It began in Athens, two decades ago, with a signature at the Zappeion Megaron — a city built on ideas giving birth to another one: that energy could unite where politics once divided. The Energy Community was born in 2005 to extend the EU’s energy...