Marko Pavic

The Croatian government on Wednesday approved higher quotas for foreign workers: 2,000 work permits for the tourism industry and 1,000 for the construction sector. The possibility of an additional 1,000 permits was discussed in case shortages arise in the domestic workforce in both sectors.

Mladen Novosel, the chairman of the Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia, called on Tuesday for Labour Minister Marko Pavic to step down for "systematically telling untruths related to pension reform" via a series of televised advertisements.

The largest Bosniak party, the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, will start legal proceedings before the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, challenging the name of the Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, the SDA announced on Wednesday.

Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik, who was recently elected as the Serb member of the tripartite state-level presidency, said on Thursday that his party colleague Radovan Viskovic should be given a mandate to establish Republika Srpska's new government after this month's elections.

Few thousands of Croatian workers and union members gathered in Zagreb's Europe Square on Saturday to show their bitter disapproval of planned pension reforms.

Milorad Dodik has called on Serb representatives in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) institutions to stop working and leave those institutions.

The reason is the threat of war made toward the Serb entity in BiH, the Serb Republic (RS), a statement said on Tuesday.

MPs in the Bosnian Serb entity, Republika Srpska, delivered a stunning blow to Milorad Dodik's government on Wednesday when they failed to back a plan to sell a key iron ore mine to Israeli purchasers.

Of 80 MPs present in the chamber, only 39 backed the sale of the Ljubija mine to the Israelis, while 34 MPs were opposed and seven abstained.