On 12th of October 2014 there were general elections in Bosnia and Hercegovina. The war-torn ethnically divided country has one of the most complicated political and electoral systems in the world – These are the reflections of an international election observer. It is 7 o’clock early morning and unexpectedly chilly. The walls are decorated with…
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Insight into the Bosnian Floods
The Situation in Bosnia is getting worse and worse every day, damage from the floods had been estimated to go as far as 5 billion euros and the crisis is not over yet.
A Bosnian Spring?
A Bosnian Spring? Twenty years after the Dayton Agreement, there is something going wrong in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Despite the implementation of a remarkable reconstruction and development program after the war until today, corrupt and incompetent political elites rein the country. Unemployment rate is at minimum 40 per cent and young people and rural…
The Bosnian Spring: A Queer-Feminist Perspective
The fifth of February marked the beginning of the largest demonstration in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since the end of the war. It is not only the extent of the protest that marks a profound caesura in the history of BiH but also the unprecedented consequences following: mass rampages, extensive arrests, the resignation of the…
FYEG summer camp 2003
Where 1984’s Olympic Games drew the world’s attention to Jahorina Mountain, FYEG repeated the same phenomenon with young greens from all overEurope. More than 80 people from more than 30 countries and organisations – mostly members of FYEG, came together to debate, exchange experience and earn a lot of new knowledge and friends on Mt.Jahorina,…
Meet the Bosnian Green Youth
Bosnian Green Youth is a non-profit and a non-political oriented green organisation. We are in process of registering on national level. We have about 100 members and in future we hope that we would have more members. We will keep working on it. We have already participated in two FYEG‘s summer camps in Serbia. The…