EXTERNAL ACTION / Balkans

Giacomelli says pressure must be maintained for Sarajevo to join transport community

Brussels, 30/08/2017 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 30 August, the special representative from Italy's foreign affairs ministry for the Western Balkans summit, Michele Giacomelli, called for pressure to be maintained on Bosnia-Herzegovina so that it might sign the European Transport Community Treaty – to which the other five Western Balkans countries already belong (see EUROPE 11829).

After eight years of negotiations, and despite the country initialling the agreement in June, Sarajevo did not in the end sign the Treaty at...