Bosnia and Herzegovina's Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic addresses at a news conference after an association council with the European Union in Brussels, Belgium December 11, 2015. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - 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 Stabilisation 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 encourage economic development.
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