Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric has pushed back the deadline for police reform from the end of December until mid-February.
Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, who resigned in early November in protest over police reforms and was reappointed last week by the Bosnian president, has decided to push back the deadline for police reforms from the end of this month until mid-February, Stratfor sources have confirmed. Spiric, a member of Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik’s Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), is trying to show the European Union that some progress on police reforms is occurring, especially in light of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Bosnia on Dec. 19.