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Can EU ambitions power a harmonious future for Bosnia-Herzegovina?

Bosnia-Herzegovina applied to join the EU in 2016 but slow progress in answering questions over corruption, as well as weaknesses stemming from a complex political structure, threaten to thwart its hopes. Peter McGill reports.
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A long queue has formed of Balkan countries seeking to follow in the footsteps of Slovenia and Croatia in joining the EU. Bosnia-Herzegovina would appear to be at the back of this queue but commands global attention for the circumstances of its birth as a fragile multi-ethnic state that emerged from the ravages of its civil war in the 1990s.

May's annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s capital, will focus attention on the country's progress as well as its unique problems. 

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