Council of European Municipalities and Regions

After Dragan Covic, the Croat member of Bosnia's tripartite Presidency, announced that Bosnia's Croatian-majority cantons will open a joint representative office in Brussels, critics called the move a step towards the destabilisation, and even the collapse, of the Bosnian state.

A new project that introduced female-priority carriages on intra-city trains in the northwestern Turkish province of Bursa has drawn criticism from some locals.  

"You cannot end sexual harassment by putting women in separate carriages. Women and men come together in other environments too. You cannot avert it this way," passenger Irmak Aslan said.