Nevesinje – The Forgotten Land
Nevesinje was chosen for participation in the Business Bus project because, for decades, it has experienced economic decline. Situated in the south-east of BiH, Nevesinje has a rich historical tradition, but its geographical position and distance from the main highway through Herzegovina contributed to its economic difficulties. A long history of little economic development During the 1992-95 war, Nevesinje fell under Serb control and is today part of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity. The town’s population is estimated to be around 18,000, with some 8,000 persons believed to be refugees from Herzegovinian municipalities in BiH’s other Federal entity. Before the recent war, Nevesinje was an economically underdeveloped municipality in spite…
Report: More Money than Sense in BiH?
This research shows that Bosnia still lacks capacities, knowledge, and skills for better exploitation of the available EU funds. The news that has marked last week is related to our first neighbours. In the next budget period Croatia will be able to receive up to 11.7 billion Euros, of which 8.092 billion for the cohesion policy, 3.462 for the common agricultural policy, and 203.7 million for the Schengen border. In addition to these funds, Croatia will be able to compete for funds for the common programs using the initiatives aimed at youth employment that amount in total to around 6 billion Euros. The aim of the four-month long Populari research…
Deconstruction Three: Goodbye or Good Day to Foreign Investment?
Naida Džigal – Goodbye or Good Day to Foreign Investment? “There is a continuing threat to Western targets in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with terrorist acts still carried out to this day” Although Bosnia is closely monitored by international community in relation to terrorism, any thorough reading of official reports and information sheets of the government agencies of western countries concerned with terrorism and safety in general immediately shows that these reports and information sheets actually do not imply or explicitly say that “terrorist acts still carried out to this day” in Bosnia. In particular, the word “still” in this statement implies that there has been a history of continuous terrorist…
