Bosnia and Herzegovina - Media Review – November 2

NEZAVISNE NOVINE

- Accomodation in hotels in all Bosnian ski centres will be 30% cheaper this winter, local Association of Hotel and Restaurant Operators said.

DNEVNI AVAZ

- European Union and U.S. representatives should arrive in Bosnia on Monday for a new round of negotiations with Bosnian leaders on constitutional reforms, the daily said. International diplomats will strive to reach an agreement with the locals before November 18 when Bosnia’s international supervisory body, PIC, will hold its the next session.

- Bosnian agriculture is slowly dying because of uncontrolled imports and the government’s neglect of local producers, said Ljubo Maletic, farmer and member of Bosnia’s Commission for protection of domestic production.

- The business performance of Arcelor Mittal’s Bosnian steel mill in the third quarter was not optimistic and shows the company is still in a difficult financial position, the plant's director general Mukund Kulkarni said. He added although there is some recovery on global markets the firm will keep its anti-crisis policy in the final quarter of 2009 and most likely in the beginning of 2010.