On Monday 19 June, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Zvizdić, said he hoped his country could obtain the status of EU accession candidate in the first half of 2018.
"We are ready. We have an ambition: to receive candidate status in the first half of next year", he told the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee. "We are absolutely determined to follow the European path. There is no alternative. It is the only path we intend to...