Bosnians Fear Instability Will Peak in Election Year

[Laurentine]

In 2009, over 70,000 Bosnian workers lost their jobs due to direct or indirect effects of the global economic crisis. General elections planned for next autumn are likely to accentuate the political and ethnic divide while deepening economic crisis strains social cohesion. One of their analyst thinks that “2010 will be the most difficult year in post-war Bosnia, both politically and economically".