Ethnic tensions stretch Bosnia’s power grid

Article reports that after hundreds of millions of euros spent on reconstruction after its ruinous civil war, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s postwar electrical transmission system has started to succumb to inter-ethnic political tensions.

The managing board of the Balkan country’s sole power supply company, paralysed by ethnic divisions, has failed since 2008 to make new infrastructure investments or keep up with routine maintenance.

ESO: Background information: Bosnia-Herzegovina reform package rejected http://www.europeansources.info/record/bosnia-herzegovina-reform-package-rejected/

OHR: Fact Sheet: on Transco (Elektroprenos BiH), September 2009 http://www.ohr.int/ohr-dept/presso/pressr/default.asp?content_id=44005

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