Bosnia and Herzegovina: N1 Bosnia and Herzegovina

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00:00:19Good day, dear viewers, you are watching N1 info, these are the events
00:00:25places that are designated of the day. Nine miners spent their sixth night in
00:00:28the Raspotočje Mine, demanding written guarantees. for the payment of back wages, the government
00:00:31of the Federation claims that the funds
00:00:33have been secured.
00:00:37Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia killed 13 people,
00:00:40the deadliest attack in the last two
00:00:42years.
00:00:45Last preparations before the opening of the 32nd Sarajevo Film
00:00:48Festival, the red carpet is being laid, ticket sales started this morning,
00:00:52crowds were noted in front of the main
00:00:53box office.
00:00:58Nine miners from the Zenica mine spent their sixth night in the Raspotočje
00:01:01Mine, refusing to come out until they receive written guarantees of exact dates for the payment
00:01:05of their owed wages. If no response is received from the authorities by 3 p.m.,
00:01:09members of the trade union committee will join the miners in the pit. Meanwhile,
00:01:13the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the competent federal
00:01:16ministry, announced that funds have been secured for the payment of back
00:01:20wages to employees of the Mrko Gugja Zenica mine. According to the Ministry,
00:01:24following the expected operational activation of project
00:01:27funds from the World Bank in the coming days, approximately three million marks should be
00:01:31allocated for covering unpaid wages to
00:01:34miners. The statement placed special emphasis on
00:01:37the safety of the miners in the underground areas of the Raspotočje
00:01:40facility and urged them to leave the underground
00:01:44areas without delay, and for the trade union committee to cancel the announced additional
00:01:48descent of miners. They state that
00:01:50Terzemehić Samarantintore, which will feature competitors the lives and health of workers are an absolute
00:01:52priority.
00:01:56In the Brčko settlement of Ilićke, a shooting occurred this morning in which one person
00:02:00sustained severe bodily injuries. The incident occurred this morning at 6 AM on Mihaila Pupina
00:02:03Street. According to unofficial information, a man with the initials M.J.
00:02:06was wounded. According to RTV Hit Brčko,
00:02:10the attack occurred in the immediate vicinity of the wounded person's family home.
00:02:14Two men, who allegedly arrived on motorcycles, intercepted
00:02:17M.G. and fired approximately five shots in his direction. The injured
00:02:21man, with severe bodily injuries, was transported to the Brčko hospital where he was
00:02:25hospitalized in the surgery department and received
00:02:28medical assistance. For now, the motives of the attack and the
00:02:32identity of the shooters are unknown. The Brčko District police are intensively working
00:02:35to clarify all circumstances
00:02:37of this
00:02:46event. In a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of
00:02:49Nizhnekamsk and its oil refinery in Tatarstan,
00:02:5313 people were killed, including a child, while 39 were injured.
00:02:56Fierce fighting continues along other front lines in Ukraine. In the
00:03:00Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod, five people were killed, while in
00:03:04a Russian attack on Kharkiv, two died. Moscow claims to have captured two villages in
00:03:08the Donetsk region, while Kyiv states that in the past 24 hours,
00:03:11it eliminated more than 1,400 Russian soldiers. Ukrainian President
00:03:15Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that North Korea could
00:03:18send up to 50,000 soldiers to Russia and called on South
00:03:22Korea to help Ukraine's air defense.
00:03:24odbrani.
00:03:28Despite the valid example. The Israeli army carried out new attacks
00:03:32in southern Lebanon, targeting several settlements with no reports of
00:03:35casualties. The attack followed several days, several days after
00:03:39the seventh round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel in Rome, held with the mediation
00:03:42of the United States. Lebanese President Joseph Faun
00:03:46stated that positive progress has been made regarding border issues and
00:03:50prisoner exchange. The framework agreement provides for
00:03:53the gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army, the deployment of Lebanese forces,
00:03:57and the disarmament of Hezbollah. According to data
00:04:00from Lebanese officials, since March 2nd, the Israeli offensive
00:04:04has killed 4,335
00:04:06people, more than 12,000 have been wounded, while over a million residents have been
00:04:10displaced.
00:04:12Western Europe went through the hottest June and July in recorded
00:04:16history with an average temperature of 21.6 degrees
00:04:20Celsius, announced the European Copernicus service. That is almost three
00:04:23degrees above average. Due to extreme heat and drought, more than
00:04:2625,000 people have died, while fires in Spain,
00:04:30France, and Italy have destroyed more than 500,000 hectares of
00:04:33land. Historically low water levels of the rivers Seine, Rhine, and
00:04:37Danube have threatened the energy system, which is why Hungary and
00:04:40Romania have temporarily suspended the operation of nuclear reactors. Great
00:04:44Britain is currently experiencing its fifth heatwave this summer with an orange
00:04:48warning and temperatures up to 36 degrees Celsius, and
00:04:51the ban on using hoses for watering due to drought has affected
00:04:55more than 20 million
00:04:56people.
00:04:59More. More than 1.5 million people have been evacuated in eastern China
00:05:03after Typhoon Dolphin, the strongest storm in the country since the beginning of the year,
00:05:06hit the mainland. With winds gusting up to 150
00:05:11attention. km/h, the typhoon caused huge disruptions to traffic. In Shanghai,
00:05:15more than a thousand flights were cancelled, the operation of some metro lines was suspended,
00:05:18and numerous tourist attractions were closed.
00:05:21Meteorologists in the city recorded the largest amount of rainfall in the last
00:05:25150 years. Although the storm weakened as it moved
00:05:29inland, authorities warned of a high risk of floods and landslides in
00:05:32several provinces. Warnings were also issued for Beijing.
00:05:36Officially, there are no human casualties, except for a report of a missing
00:05:39nine-year-old boy in one province.
00:05:45I have been living in Shanghai for 10 years, and this is the first time I feel that
00:05:48the typhoon has caused so many problems and led to such
00:05:51floods. This is the first time I have encountered such a
00:05:54situation.
00:05:57At least eight people have died, nine are injured, and one is missing in
00:06:01floods and landslides in the Philippines caused by several days of heavy
00:06:05rains and tropical storms. The storm has affected more than
00:06:08750,000 people, while over 8,000 residents have been housed in
00:06:12evacuation centers. The most severely affected is the island of
00:06:15Luzon, where in the area of the capital Manila, water on some
00:06:18sections reached up to the waist. Due to floods,
00:06:21schools were closed, and ferry traffic in 20 ports
00:06:24was suspended. Meteorologists announce new
00:06:26rainfall.
00:06:30An explosion occurred at the Emko arms factory in Bulgaria, reports
00:06:33Bulgarian television BTN. The factory is located near the village of Belica near
00:06:37Trvljana. According to preliminary information from this
00:06:40television, a truck caught fire.
00:06:42Which then caused a fire in one of the factory's warehouses.
00:06:46A series of explosions followed. Bulgarian television reports that
00:06:49300 factory workers were evacuated. According to
00:06:53Kristina Sidorova from the local administration, no one was
00:06:56injured in this
00:06:57incident.
00:07:05In front of the National Theater Sarajevo, the red carpet was laid, marking the start
00:07:09of the final preparations for the 32nd Sarajevo Film
00:07:12Festival. Incidentally, ticket sales started this morning at the main
00:07:16box office, where crowds were also observed. The first 10 customers
00:07:20were rewarded with 10 free tickets each for films in different
00:07:23programs. Let's recall that the Sarajevo Film Festival begins on Friday,
00:07:27August 14th, and lasts until August
00:07:2921st. Large crowds were observed this morning
00:07:33in front of the Sarajevo BKC, i.e., the Office
00:07:36Box, where the physical sale of
00:07:39tickets for the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which will be
00:07:43held from August 14th to 21st, began.
00:07:47Numerous citizens of Sarajevo, as well as all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also
00:07:51tourists, especially from the countries of the region, woke up early
00:07:54to come here to grab and buy
00:07:57tickets for this year's screenings. Many
00:08:01of them even came, as they say, at 4 AM to secure a
00:08:04spot in time to buy the desired
00:08:08tickets. I came early in the morning, I was already here
00:08:11at 4 AM. We prepared a few films, Mother
00:08:15Teresa, Heritage, Palestine, No Man's Land, and so
00:08:19on. I'm interested in socializing with Sarajevo, which comes here every
00:08:22year, for years, years now
00:08:25we've been gathering. Some come at 4, like
00:08:29they came this morning, some come at 5:15, like I came
00:08:33this morning, some come at 7:15 and are
00:08:3610th, some come at seven and are
00:08:4011th. I'm here every year. "It has
00:08:43that Sarajevo spirit, beautiful films, good
00:08:47fun, I just feel good. There is great
00:08:50interest in online ticket purchasing, which
00:08:54started early last week, when minor
00:08:57difficulties were noted on the first day of
00:09:00purchase, but luckily they were resolved.
00:09:03There is very, very great interest in
00:09:06this year's program. We resolved
00:09:09the difficulties, that was probably, you're probably talking about
00:09:13the first day of pre-sale tickets, when a large
00:09:17number of users wanted to buy immediately,
00:09:20probably for a specific screening, mm,
00:09:24online sales are still ongoing, of course, and will last until the end
00:09:27of the festival, as well as the physical sale of
00:09:30tickets. For online ticket sales,
00:09:33certain discounts are available. The interest is huge, last
00:09:37year we had record ticket sales, this year,
00:09:41based on... the first day of online pre-sale
00:09:44you mentioned, sales are up
00:09:4720% compared to the previous year. Without a doubt,
00:09:51Sarajevo this summer, from August 14th to 21st,
00:09:55will be the center of the region, but also the European
00:09:58capital of film, when we expect numerous world
00:10:01stars and film screenings with a special
00:10:04focus on films from Southeast Europe,
00:10:08as well as films from all over the world. Fedža Kulina,
00:10:11N1.
00:10:17UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation, and Concacaf sharply
00:10:20criticized FIFA President Gianni Infantino for
00:10:23the failed plan to sell part of the co... commercial rights to the World
00:10:26Cup. In an open letter published today, they stated
00:10:30that Infantino had undermined trust through deception and
00:10:33demanded an independent investigation. The plan envisaged
00:10:36the sale of 20% of commercial rights to private investors for approximately
00:10:404.2 billion dollars. The three confederations
00:10:43threatened to boycott FIFA competitions if they did not receive
00:10:46guarantees that similar plans would not be repeated. The leadership in
00:10:50football is not anyone's property, they stated in the
00:10:52announcement.
00:10:55The coach of the men's senior basketball team of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:10:59Dario Đerđa, announced the list of players he is counting on during the preparatory
00:11:02period for the World Cup qualification matches. The head
00:11:06of the coaching staff of the Dragons called Edin Atić, Amar
00:11:10Gegić, Darko Talić, Adnan Arslanagić, Mić
00:11:13Milovanović, Xavier Castanedi, Vojin Ilić,
00:11:16Eman Šertović, Edin Preldžić, Adin
00:11:20Vrabac, Aleksandar Lazić, Asim Gutić, Amar
00:11:23Alibegović, Stefan. Simanić, Jusuf Nurkić, Kenan
00:11:27Kamenjaš, Luka Garza and Ali Islamović. Džanan Musa
00:11:31and Emir Sulejmanović are still out, who will not be in
00:11:34contention for the qualification matches against Italy in Tuzla
00:11:37on August 28th and Lithuania in Vilnius on September
00:11:411st. Đerđa will miss Ajdin Penava due to
00:11:44injury. The Dragons are scheduled to gather on August 12th in
00:11:48Vlašić. During preparations, the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina is planned
00:11:51to play a friendly match against Poland in Hrasnica. August
00:11:5520th.
00:11:59And Sarajevo in the coming days will be the meeting place for some of the most talented
00:12:02young male and female tennis players from Europe and the world. Tomorrow begins the jubilee
00:12:0630th International Tournament Open RTC Barcelona
00:12:09189 Sarajevo 2026. Memorial
00:12:15from as many as 25 countries. This is a
00:12:19first category Tennis Europe tournament for junior girls and boys up to
00:12:2216 years old, which for three decades has been one of the most significant
00:12:26tennis events of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
00:12:29competition will last until Saturday, August 15th, when
00:12:33this year's winners will be known.
00:12:37I will mention a person who, unfortunately, is no longer with us for several
00:12:40years, that is the honorary president, Mr. Juan
00:12:44Maria Tinturé, who was the first person to come from Barcelona to
00:12:47Sarajevo with whom we made contact and
00:12:51who somehow turned everything around. We came from the fourth
00:12:55category of European tennis to this first, most prestigious one. There is
00:12:59only one stronger, which is the super category, but it is very rare, and
00:13:02the master that Tea regularly won, she said
00:13:06how well organized this tournament is and how significant it is.
00:13:10I will say that our motto was primarily Tea,
00:13:14actually all those who came here to Bosnia and
00:13:17Herzegovina as young tennis players, they trained
00:13:20a lot, gave their best, and achieved great
00:13:23results.
00:13:26As a tennis player from Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am very happy
00:13:29to see such a big tournament in our capital,
00:13:33so I thank all of you for making
00:13:37this tournament possible for us and for following
00:13:40me and my results. As perhaps the greatest
00:13:43junior of Bosnia and Herzegovina ever,
00:13:46I support this tournament and I am truly glad to see
00:13:50our younger generations now. I think
00:13:55this is the most important tennis tournament perhaps in Bosnia and
00:13:58Herzegovina.
00:14:01I'm sorry that every year we talk about the same thing, which is financial
00:14:05support. The Ministry of Culture and Sports does provide support, but not
00:14:09as much as everyone should. So this is a unique opportunity, after
00:14:1331 tournaments, to finally see all levels of government
00:14:16understand the importance of this tournament, because this is a tournament where players from
00:14:20all of Bosnia and Herzegovina play, a tournament where 25
00:14:23countries come to our city.
00:14:27Finally, for the news, let's also look at the weather forecast.
00:14:31Warm greetings, dear viewers, high temperatures are present throughout Bosnia and
00:14:34Herzegovina. As you can see, this is precisely why a warning has been issued
00:14:38through the Meteoalarm system of the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute. The warm air
00:14:41will continue to linger over our region. For the remainder of Monday,
00:14:45it will remain mostly sunny throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:14:49dry with mostly light winds. Mostly, easterly and northeasterly
00:14:52winds blow, with westerly and southwesterly winds dominating
00:14:56in Herzegovina and the southwestern part of Bosnia. All of this,
00:14:59of course, affects temperatures. We expect that the maximum
00:15:03temperature values in the Herzegovinian area today will
00:15:07reach up to 40°. In Bosnia,
00:15:09mostly from 30 to a maximum of 36-37. And
00:15:13the heatwave will continue in the coming days until the end of the week.
00:15:16It will certainly remain hot, dry and still
00:15:20rarely with showers, possibly during Wednesday
00:15:23in part of Herzegovina. A more significant refreshment
00:15:26with precipitation is only possible in the upcoming new
00:15:30week. That would be all for this news summary, thank you for your
00:15:36A new day begins,
00:15:57the sponsor of the show Medicana Health
00:16:00Group.
00:16:01We begin with an analysis of the most current
00:16:11events in the country. My colleague Rubina Čengić
00:16:15will go through the most important topics with me this morning, but first, good morning,
00:16:18good morning to you and the viewers, thank you for the invitation.
00:16:33of a cold day or... at least some clouds or something, it's really
00:16:37really difficult, these record heats have not only caused problems
00:16:41for people, but we see what they are doing in the fire-affected areas
00:16:44in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we see what they are doing in health centers, stomach viruses
00:16:48that we are talking about today, are raging everywhere, we see what they are doing to
00:16:52our energy potentials, so some are being shut down,
00:16:55some are being reduced and it is entirely legitimate to ask how our energy
00:16:59future will look like, have we reached a phase when
00:17:03perhaps we start to take climate change a little
00:17:07more seriously? Well, I don't know, judging by the fire in
00:17:10Konjic, judging by the fact that we still
00:17:13don't have simple procedures, for example, when you talk about
00:17:17the energy situation, simple procedures for installing solar panels
00:17:20on roofs and connecting to the grid, it seems to me
00:17:23that our authorities are very slow,
00:17:27that our authorities understand or actually do not think
00:17:30at all about the needs of citizens. It sounds like a cliché,
00:17:34I'm a bit boring, whenever we speak publicly,
00:17:37that's one of the sentences we say, right? The government,
00:17:40the institutions of the system, the authorities actually do not think at
00:17:44all about the needs, about the needs of
00:17:47citizens, uh, do we demand
00:17:51what we need? Very often I ask that
00:17:55question, unfortunately people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we see how they live
00:17:58and how people make ends meet. Somehow there isn't
00:18:02much opportunity to go anywhere or
00:18:06travel or... see how it can be different. Then our expectations
00:18:09seem to be in line with those impossibilities. However,
00:18:13the latest situation shows us that one
00:18:16of the citizens asked for a tree to be cut down because
00:18:20she couldn't see her car that was parked in the parking lot.
00:18:24Then again, we open that question of greenery,
00:18:27planting, you know
00:18:30how we have a completely dual relationship, so you just
00:18:34mentioned a citizen who asked for a tree to be cut down and... "because
00:18:37she doesn't see the car and it was cut down. And throughout Bosnia and
00:18:40Herzegovina, you have, for example, places where nature is destroyed by
00:18:44mining, by irresponsible installation of
00:18:47wind farms or whatever, and nobody reacts there. Citizens gather,
00:18:51demand change, but the authorities respond poorly. We have been following
00:18:54the situation in Vareš with the increased lead in
00:18:58the blood and so on for almost two years, nothing is
00:19:01happening. You had a guest on your show, I think,
00:19:05the other day, a man from the market inspection
00:19:08who said that, I don't know, what percentage of samples they
00:19:11took were
00:19:14contaminated with certain unhealthy
00:19:17bacteria, if bacteria can be healthy, some can,
00:19:20but we did not get the names of those
00:19:23establishments where those bad things were found,
00:19:27and ice creams, I mean ice creams, but you also had a review
00:19:30of these big, I mean, stores, supermarkets and so on, and
00:19:34they were found there too, they were found there too, but we don't know. "We are not told
00:19:38where it is, I want to tell you that the government
00:19:41reacts in a very dual way, and it is difficult to recognize the principle
00:19:45by which they decide. So we can cut down a tree, but
00:19:49if we have an investor or some
00:19:51person who, when journalists scratch a little below the surface,
00:19:55you see that these are some people who are either close or there are some
00:19:59certain interests and so on. That's why I say that the government
00:20:02is actually very irresponsible towards citizens.
00:20:06I don't know if you know, but
00:20:15the municipalities in the area of the city of Sarajevo have decisions
00:20:19according to which the mayors decide which tree will be cut
00:20:22or not. They have, so they have a three-member commission
00:20:26in which it seems two members are from the municipal
00:20:29administration, one as some kind of expert person, it can be either a forestry
00:20:33engineer or someone from the
00:20:36municipal company Park, but we don't really see
00:20:40any analysis being done, or the greenery being managed
00:20:43systematically, that's right, that's right, that's right, yes, we definitely
00:20:47need more parks, all this is somehow connected. "It's hot, people
00:20:51can barely stand it, it would be nice to have slightly more spacious parks
00:20:54and greenery when we look around, not concrete everywhere, but again,
00:20:57honestly speaking, we, pardon, we started talking about it in the last three
00:21:01years, ever since these great heats started, until then we really
00:21:04took greenery for granted and trees, but now if you look, for example,
00:21:08specifically in Sarajevo, you have some trees that are located in places
00:21:12where people don't move, but in
00:21:15for people to move, especially through the city center, you..." "You almost
00:21:18don't have a tree that can provide shade and protect people,
00:21:22so it's very, very, very somehow unplanned,
00:21:25irresponsible, I would say, and without imagination, so to speak.
00:21:29How do we fight the fiery element?
00:21:33Uh, the scenes you can see when
00:21:36you start your journey south,
00:21:38or to Herzegovina, so literally people are standing on balconies, behind them is a fiery
00:21:42element approaching. I don't know what happened,
00:21:45for years we've been talking about how we urgently need a
00:21:50Canadair, because actually when fires start, they start throughout the region.
00:21:53You can't expect someone to lend you a Canadair at any time or
00:21:57that you can hire, I don't know, that's interesting, for example, we got this
00:22:01new helicopter in Sarajevo Canton, which is commendable if it
00:22:05is at the service of citizens who need it
00:22:08in various situations where it is necessary to quickly move from
00:22:12point A to point B, but perhaps one could consider, put a finger on
00:22:16the forehead and say whether we needed a Canadair
00:22:20more or such a helicopter. Is
00:22:24it, a Canadair is expensive, we cannot compare it with official
00:22:27cars and so on, but are we right to have dozens of
00:22:31official, are we properly managing public money? For example,
00:22:34I know, I followed this for several years back, the World Bank
00:22:37occasionally had an analysis of the distribution of public funds in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:22:41and every time the conclusion of their analysis was that there is enough
00:22:45money for all needs, but it is completely wrongly
00:22:48allocated. When we talk about wrongly allocated, now, not to go too far,
00:22:52right? If you procure medicines in small quantities in multiple places, you cannot
00:22:56get the discount you could get if you procured centrally in one
00:22:59place. In that way, money is wasted in the most varied possible
00:23:03ways. Here's a trivial example that I find very interesting,
00:23:07the government of the Federation has now decided to allocate these 50, 60
00:23:11marks to soldiers
00:23:15from the war in the 90s,
00:23:17for... that 60 marks, which is the maximum
00:23:21amount if I understood correctly, individually actually means
00:23:24nothing. In total, it is a huge amount of money
00:23:28that could have gone, among other things, one year
00:23:32for a Canadair, another year for something else, so that we all
00:23:35together have some real benefit. Is this for the purpose of the upcoming elections? Well,
00:23:39I'm afraid it is. A little populism, a little upcoming elections, that's
00:23:42a big population. Is that an insult to people's dignity? Well, I think when
00:23:46people start perceiving it that way. Or they should, I think they
00:23:50should, but I don't see why they don't react, but rather, as they say,
00:23:53"well, 60 marks is what they say for good measure."
00:23:57Is that what you mean? No, you know, it's like
00:24:00Rambo's for those who have incomes up to
00:24:03300 euros, they will talk about nationalism and such. I think people
00:24:07are so exhausted, really
00:24:11exhausted by poverty, threats,
00:24:13war, constant political conflicts, this and that,
00:24:16and another big problem that we
00:24:20have been fighting, let's say, since the war,
00:24:24that is the lack of critical thinking and media and political
00:24:26literacy, for people to understand why some
00:24:30decisions are made right then. Here's a trivial example, the other day
00:24:33the Minister of Health was a guest on a television and boasted
00:24:37that, believe it or not, I think it's the first time
00:24:40in this mandate and he's the second time, right, the Minister of Health
00:24:44talked about how the expanded list of medicines went
00:24:48somewhere for approval within government
00:24:52and then he commented on the rebellion of doctors in Livno, which happened a couple of
00:24:55weeks ago, then he said "oh, that's just an election campaign," meaning when
00:24:59someone demands their rights, it's an election campaign, but when you, after
00:25:03a four-year term, finally send, you know, those medicines,
00:25:07or start the procedure, that's not an election
00:25:10campaign. So, that's the critical thinking that we really
00:25:14witness. We really witness a huge
00:25:17irresponsibility and actually it's beautiful... that
00:25:20ability of our people to
00:25:23survive, to find solace, to
00:25:25somehow, I don't know, fight for every new day, even though they live
00:25:29in the environment they live in for years. Rubina, will anyone take
00:25:33responsibility for the miners? So, in the past
00:25:36years, there's been intensive talk about how they should be properly
00:25:39cared for, however, it seems to me that their
00:25:43problems, or situation, or lives are being solved in a haphazard
00:25:46way. Nine of them decided to stay
00:25:50in the Raspotočje mine. The Kreka
00:25:53mine workers were also protesting and then they came out. Their
00:25:57salaries are questionable, their existence is questionable, their severance pay is questionable. So, we have
00:26:00the steel factory workers, that's 1 thousand people, with
00:26:04families dependent on them, and thousands and hundreds more and associated
00:26:07business entities. So, is there any
00:26:11plan? Will anyone take responsibility for all those people who
00:26:14fed us and supplied us with energy
00:26:17for years? So, too many bad, too many bad things for one
00:26:21little Monday morning, but that is really our, our
00:26:24reality. This is about
00:26:27the miners, we can only hope that this whole situation
00:26:31will not end badly for any of them, that they will come out
00:26:35healthy and alive from that mine, at least those who are
00:26:38protesting underground. For years, we've been
00:26:41witnessing this enormous irresponsibility towards miners. So, the moment
00:26:45Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the Sofia Declaration and committed
00:26:49to giving up dirty energy,
00:26:51dirty energy, nothing was done, they just
00:26:55sat and waited as if something would be done. Journalists,
00:26:59activists, everyone was questioning for years what would happen with the mines,
00:27:03some ideas exist, but no one has ever shown
00:27:06concrete plans. I will remind you for example that in America
00:27:10and Macedonia they closed some mines, they retrained
00:27:13miners for the production of solar panels. That was the
00:27:17idea for Bosnia as well, but no one did anything.
00:27:20It seems to me that we
00:27:23are paying the price of
00:27:26appointing suitable, not capable, people to various
00:27:29positions, that a series of decisions that are made are actually
00:27:33wrong, specifically in the energy sector. Somehow, as I would
00:27:36say, decisions are made haphazardly. Let's merge the mines with Elektroprivreda,
00:27:40let's, I don't know, let's rebuild this block
00:27:44in Tuzla in a way that is not acceptable at that moment,
00:27:47let's, let's stop the block, let's, let's, let's
00:27:50do this. So, all decisions in the last, well, certainly ten
00:27:54years, it seems to me, I'm not an engineer, let's be
00:27:57clear, but somehow following the consequences, I conclude
00:28:01that they were made insufficiently thoughtfully. I won't say stupidly
00:28:04or too quickly, but really insufficiently thoughtfully, and we are now paying
00:28:08that price. Some time ago, for example, a
00:28:11document was circulating which, I cannot say who the author of that
00:28:15document is, but it showed in a very systematic way how
00:28:19Elektroprivreda could solve the problem
00:28:22of households with electricity bills up to 30 marks by installing
00:28:26solar panels on their houses. At that moment, there was a
00:28:29clear, clear mathematical calculation of how much money was needed for...
00:28:41the information that Elektroprivreda and the Ministry of Energy have somehow
00:28:44regulated those documents that define the installation of solar panels,
00:28:47connection to the grid, but we see that everything is going very slowly and I, for example, follow
00:28:51two cases. In Banja Luka, you have Damir Miljević from this
00:28:55think tank Reset, and in Sarajevo,
00:28:58Darjan Bilić and the Sinergia Plus association are working on
00:29:01establishing two small energy
00:29:05cooperatives. That's when you install solar panels somewhere with a lot
00:29:08of sun, and two or three households get free
00:29:11electricity from the sun, batteries, and so on, and I think that this synergy,
00:29:15I wrote about it, they even got some money from the European cooperative
00:29:19of energy these are very interesting stories, but we don't
00:29:22deal with that, and our public companies responsible for
00:29:26it, it seems to me, don't use those experiences
00:29:30to improve procedures, to inform people
00:29:33what they can do and how. I will remind you that in Croatia, these
00:29:37energy cooperatives started with people collecting
00:29:40money to build an energy-
00:29:44independent school, make it energy- independent, so it started with these
00:29:47communal facilities, to show people what is possible,
00:29:51how significant and useful it is, but here, not even that is being done, civic activism
00:29:55is not supported, which is really somehow in
00:29:58the public interest and so on. Somewhere, it's as if
00:30:02everyone... as if everyone is pulling in their own direction. The government is concerned
00:30:05with itself, as I said, persistently
00:30:07appointing suitable rather than capable people,
00:30:11citizens are looking for solutions in their own way, activists
00:30:14are trying to somehow help citizens to
00:30:18live as easily as possible in at least some procedures and some
00:30:21areas of life, but it really seems like we don't listen to each other at all, like we're not playing for
00:30:25the same team, exactly, that's right, that's right, that's right, and
00:30:29citizens are suffering, prices, prices are the best indicator. We will return
00:30:34quickly to
00:30:34current
00:30:44topics and guests, a friend of the show
00:30:47General Hospital Medicana
00:30:49Sarajevo.
00:30:51Aspirin Protect 100 mg is recommended for people with
00:30:55high and very high risk of cardiovascular diseases to
00:30:59reduce.
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