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After criticising a proposed new defamation law, the EU and US have also condemned a proposed new Bosnian Serb law allowing the entity to designate NGOs as ‘foreign agents’, calling it ‘unacceptable’.

The EU and US have criticised plans by Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, president of Bosnia’s mainly Serb-dominated Republika Srpska entity, to push a new Russian-style law which would allow the entity to mark civil society and non-governmental organisations as “foreign agents”.

President Aleksandar Vučić announced that the first 125 million euros will soon arrive in Serbia as part of the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. But that this is not an unconditional donation from the European Union, but funds for which our country will have to meet certain standards.

Born: 1981;

Place of Birth: Serbia;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Serbian, Austrian;

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Mirsad Omerovic, also known as Abu Tejma is a former leader of a Bosnian terrorist cell in Vienna, Austria.

He is currently imprisoned for 20 years on charges related to radicalising and recruiting individuals to join the Islamic State.

The opening of EU accession talks marks an important milestone for Bosnia, where ethnic tensions run high. But progress on the EU track is no remedy for the chronic crisis besetting the country’s politics.

Bosnia finally has some good news. On March 21, the European Council gave the country the green light to start membership talks with the EU.

The international police action “Black guy 2” is ongoing throughout BiH, in which several people have been arrested so far, including some of the high-ranking police officials, who are linked to the “Tito and Dino” drug cartel.

The Serbian community in Kosovo suffered the biggest blow from the armed conflict in Banjska, from which it is still recovering. While he is recovering, the citizens are leaving, Ana Marija Ivković, journalist of Radio Kontakt plus from Kosovska Mitrovica, tells Danas.