Ending a few months of speculation at the end of an unusually warm January 2014, Serbia’s ruling SNS (Srpska napredna stranka – Serbian Progressive Party) announced that it will call for early parliamentary elections in Serbia, just a year and a half after it had formed a government. The decision froze its relations with SPS (Socijalistička partija Srbije – Socialist Party of Serbia), which had formed the government together with SNS.

Since its emergence as an independent country in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina has been facing significant problems. The roots of those problems are strong national animosities between the three main ethnic groups in the country: Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats.