BiH lawmakers on Monday approved a new Council of Ministers after a 14-month deadlock, clearing the way for resumption of reforms necessary for BiH to be a candidate for EU membership.
Disagreement among the Bosnian presidency’s Serb, Croat and Bosniak members on how to proceed toward NATO integration had blocked the formation of a new government since a national election in the ethnically divided Balkan nation last year.
But after a compromise between the ethnic groups last month, parliament approved Bosnian Serb economist Zoran Tegeltija as prime minister on Dec. 5. Tegeltija had previously served as finance minister in Bosnia’s autonomous Serb Republic.
