September 7 (SeeNews) - Following are some of the main stories in the online versions of Bosnian media on Monday morning and over the weekend. SeeNews has not verified these reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy:
NEZAVISNE NOVINE
- Bosnia’s generation born after 1991, when the war and the dissolution of former Yugoslavia started, becomes of age this year and experts warn it is “severely damaged” compared to other generations as it grew up in a wartime environment. Experts say this generation could be prone to intolerance, narcissism, impatience and distrust.
- The shares of Bosnia’s Rafinerija Nafte Bosanski Brod have been delisted from the segment of the Banja Luka bourse where stocks are traded continuously as they no longer fulfill relevant liquidity criteria and will be moved to the segment that uses a single price auction method as of September 14.
DNEVNI AVAZ
- The former prime minister of Bosnia’s Muslim-Croat Federation, Nedzad Brankovic, will open a private business, based in Sarajevo, by the end of the month, anonymous sources said. Brankovic will join a host of former heads of government of the Federation, who went into private business after their tenure.
- Bosnia’s Tuzla municipality and power utility Elektroprivreda BiH have signed an agreement that calls for the utility to invest 3.6 million marka in the construction of a 450 megawatt unit at the site of an existing thermal power plant, municipal governor Jasmin Imammovic said. The new unit 7 should be completed by 2017, replacing units 1 and 2 that have already been shut down, as well as units 3 and 4 that are earmarked for closure.
- The projections for Bosnia's economic growth this year are constantly changing but the latest estimates point to a contraction of 3.0%, central bank governor Kemal Kozaric said. He added that Bosnia’s trade deficit for the first seven months contracted 27.6% to some 4.0 billion marka.
(1 euro=1.95583 marka)