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EU vows to help prevent the possible breakup of Bosnia
https://apnews.com/article/business-...2d0b45b4cfd2be

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is ready to limit financial assistance and possibly impose sanctions in Bosnia to help prevent the possible breakup up of the ethnically divided Balkan country as the peace agreement brokered over 25 years ago unravels, the EU’s top diplomat vowed Monday.

“There is no place in Europe for a divided Bosnia and Herzegovina. And those who work in this direction are strongly wrong,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said after chairing a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers.

The United States last month announced new sanctions against Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, who has for years been advocating that the Serb-run part of Bosnia should leave the rest of the country and unite with neighboring Serbia.

The U.S. accused him of “corrupt activities” that threaten to destabilize the region and undermine the U.S.-brokered Dayton Peace Accord. Dodik says he and Bosnian Serbs are being unfairly targeted and wrongly accused of corruption.

Quite frightening that with all that's going on in Ukraine that this part of the Balkans continues to have problems. The Balkans are one place that the EU experiment of supra-nationality not based on ethic/religious ties were in my mind the most promising but as these countries aren't yet part of the EU, and with this uptick in problems won't be.
I hope this can be something that the EU can take lead on with the US supporting as the war on Serbia in the 90s was US and NATO lead, not EU/ECC.