Bosnia to Apply for EU Membership in January

After years of delay, Bosnia will officially apply in January to join the European Union, encouraged by the bloc's positive assessment of its reform progress, the chairman of the Balkan country's three-man presidency said on Thursday. Bosnia signed a pre-membership pact on closer ties known as a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) back in 2008, but after years of delayed reforms it was only ratified in June this year when Germany and Britain launched a new initiative to...

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