A view over the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 12, 2016. Piture taken January 12, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia will officially apply to join the European Union on Feb. 15, the country's presidency said on Tuesday, a major milestone in the former Yugoslav republic's integration with the European mainstream two decades after emerging from war.
Bosnia lags far behind its Balkan peers on the road to membership of the EU, with progress dogged by ethnic divisions after a 1992-95 war in which some 100,000 people died.
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