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The Balkan country of Bosnia and Herzegovina is to begin EU membership negotiations, eight years after it formally applied to join the bloc.
The European Commission – the EU’s executive arm – last week recommended that talks should begin.
EU leaders have now given the plan their approval.
European Council president Charles Michel congratulated the country’s leaders, telling them: “Your place is in our European family.”
He posted a photo of him shaking hands with Borjana…