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	Top Stories Bosnia's Energoinvest in $52 million deal with Libya Bosnia takes steps to increase dignity of Parliament Bosnia's natural beauty makes it a tourist haven

	Top Stories School in Bosnia and Herzegovina pursues interest in Consciousness-Based Education Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark find rising interest in Transcendental Meditation, Consciousness-Based Education

	Top Stories Bosnian Serb Prime Minister resigns
Positive Trends Short Summaries of Top Stories Bosnia's Energoinvest in $52 million deal with Libya 26 December 2007 - Bosnia's largest engineering group Energoinvest has clinched a new $52 million deal with Libya to build power transmission lines and a transformer station, General Manager Dzemail Vlahovljak said. The company is among Bosnia's top five exporters and exports account for half its revenues. (more) Bosnia takes steps to increase dignity of Parliament 13 August 2007 - Deputies in Bosnia's central parliament could soon face hefty fines for talking on their mobile phones or reading newspapers during parliament sessions. Expressions that are rude to colleagues or that undermine parliament's dignity will also be banned. It is expected that this recently drafted code of conduct will be adopted next month by the Bosnian parliament. (more) Bosnia's natural beauty makes it a tourist haven 24 July 2007 - Bosnia's tourist arrivals in the first four months of 2007 were almost 20 per cent higher than the same period last year and a World Tourism Organization study predicted the Balkan nation would have the third highest growth rate in the world by 2020. Bosnia's welcoming people, handmade artifacts, and organic food are a hit with tourists. (more) Bosnia's chief peace overseer plans to end mission 26 June 2006 - The international community's High Representative and the European Union's special representative in Bosnia, German diplomat Christian Schwarz-Schilling, states that the country has made sufficient post-war progress to warrant the closing of his office by this time next year. (more) International administrator calls for self-sufficiency for Bosnia-Herzegovina 19 April 2006 - Bosnia-Herzegovina Prime Minister Adnan Terzic called his country 'a successful example' of postwar peace-building and told the United Nations Security Council the government supports plans to transfer international 'ownership' to the country's own institutions. (more) Bosnian ski resort becoming a place of unity and harmony 6 February 2006 - Mount Jahorina, host to the 1984 Winter Olympics, became a shelter for war commanders and their troops during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. Now, Jahorina's ski slopes are slowly becoming trails to reconciliation as skiers from all countries of the former Yugoslavia come to ski, and put the past behind. (more) Bosnian hill may have pyramid of ancient civilization 5 December 2005 - Evidence of an ancient civilization, perhaps the Illyrians who inhabited the Balkan peninsula long before Slavic tribes conquered it around AD 600, may be buried in Bosnia. Little is known about the Illyrians, but the discovery is leading to speculation that they were sophisticated and cultured. Indications show an ancient pyramid whose structure is not common to the region. (more) Bosnia starts landmark talks with European Union 25 November 2005 - Negotiations are underway to integrate Bosnia-Hercegovina into the European Union, as well as promote economic and trade relations. The go-ahead for the stabilization and association agreement talks came after Bosnia adopted a plan for reform of its ethnically divided police force, a key EU requirement. (more) Accord reached to unify a divided Bosnia 22 November 2005 - Leaders of Bosnia's three major ethnic groups have reached an accord designed to unify the Balkan country by remaking the government's constitution a decade after a bloody civil war. The accord, coming a day after the 10th anniversary of the Dayton accords that ended the three-year war, marks a major step in binding the wounds left by what was Europe's worst fighting since World War II. (more) Bosnia-Herzegovina on course to join EU 16 November 2005 - Ten years after the end of the civil war, Bosnia-Herzegovina has become a viable state and is on course to become part of the European Union. Paddy Ashdown, the country's international administrator told the UN Security Council. 'This is truly a remarkable achievement,' he said. (more)
Success of Maharishi's Programmes Short Summaries of Top Stories School in Bosnia and Herzegovina pursues interest in Consciousness-Based Education 24 January 2010 - A Consciousness-Based Education programme is on the horizon for a school in Bosnia and Herzegovina, among other new developments for the programmes of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the country. (more) Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark find rising interest in Transcendental Meditation, Consciousness-Based Education 22 January 2010 - Interest in Consciousness-Based Education and the Transcendental Meditation Programme is rising rapidly among the people of many countries, including Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Denmark. (more)
Flops Short Summaries of Top Stories Bosnian Serb Prime Minister resigns 18 December 2004 - On Friday, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Prime Minister of the Bosnian Serb-run half of the country resigned, a day after the US government and Bosnia's top international administrator sanctioned Bosnian Serbs for failing to arrest and hand over war crimes suspects to the UN tribunal. (more)