On Tuesday 11 April, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Igor Crnadak told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee that he hoped his country would obtain European Union candidate accession status by the end of 2017.
Saying that his county would focus on the response to the questionnaire sent by the European Commission last December (see EUROPE 11687), Crnadak stated that Bosnia-Herzegovina would do its utmost to “obtain candidate status as soon as possible, if...