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00:00:19Good afternoon, dear viewers, you are watching More than 1.5 million people have been evacuated an information event
00:00:22of the day.
00:00:26Miners were promised payment of back wages, but they did not receive an exact date
00:00:30for payment, so three more members of the union board
00:00:34joined the miners
00:00:35in the Raspotoče Pit.
00:00:39Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia killed 13 people.
00:00:42The deadliest attack in the last two
00:00:44years.
00:00:47Final preparations before the opening of the 32nd Sarajevo Film
00:00:50Festival, the red carpet has been laid out. Ticket sales began this morning,
00:00:54with crowds reported in front of the main Box
00:00:56Office.
00:01:01Nine miners from the Zenica Brown Coal Mine spent their sixth night in the Raspotočje
00:01:05pit, refusing to come out until they received written
00:01:09guarantees of exact payment dates for the wages owed to them. As previously
00:01:12announced, three members of the union board joined
00:01:16the miners in the pit because they did not receive an exact date for the payment of their
00:01:19wages, confirmed by ZN1 Alija Selman from the Zenica Brown Coal Mine
00:01:23Union. In the meantime, the Government of the Federation
00:01:27and the relevant federal ministry announced that funds
00:01:30have been secured for the payment of back wages to employees of the Zenica Brown Coal
00:01:34Mine. According to the ministry, following the expected
00:01:37operational activation of World Bank
00:01:40project funds in the coming days, approximately three million convertible marks
00:01:44should be allocated to cover unpaid wages
00:01:47to miners. The statement placed special emphasis on the safety
00:01:50of miners in the underground
00:01:54sector is not up areas of the Raspotočje plant and called on them to immediately
00:01:56vacate the underground premises. They state that the lives and health
00:02:00of workers are an absolute priority.
00:02:04The government secured a World Bank loan of 160 million
00:02:08KM, and we soon expect the effectiveness of this loan
00:02:11in the coming days, so everything that was planned will be
00:02:15paid to the miners. They know this very well. We have
00:02:18been communicating during the past few days, of course,
00:02:22advising them not to expose themselves to such dangers
00:02:25and a type of strike that is happening in methane
00:02:28rooms because that is, in our opinion, very, very dangerous.
00:02:32So everything that was promised, that is, it will be done.
00:02:36Representatives of the Zenica Mine Union have already received a request to fill in
00:02:40all the data for the payment of wages, and not just for two months,
00:02:43but for three months, given that on the 25th of this
00:02:47month, the obligation for the payment of the third salary
00:02:50will already arise. Although they did not work during this
00:02:54period, we will honor our agreement until the end and pay all
00:02:58wages that these workers need to be paid.
00:03:02In the Brčko settlement of Ilička, a shooting occurred this morning in which one person
00:03:06sustained serious bodily injuries. The incident occurred this morning around 6
00:03:10AM on Mihajlo Pupin Street. According to unofficial information, a man
00:03:13with the initials MG was wounded. According to RTV Hit Brčko,
00:03:17the attack occurred in the immediate vicinity of the injured
00:03:20person's family home. Two men who allegedly
00:03:24drove up on motorcycles, intercepted M.G. and fired
00:03:27about five bullets in his direction. The injured
00:03:31the climate, it affects man was transported to the Brčko hospital with serious bodily injuries where he was hospitalized
00:03:35in the surgery department and received medical assistance. For now, the motives
00:03:38of the attack nor the identity of the people who
00:03:41fired are known. According to police, the Brčko District
00:03:45police are intensively working
00:03:46event.
00:03:56In a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city
00:03:58of Nizhnekamsk, and its oil refinery
00:04:01in Tatarstan, 13 people died, including a child, while 39
00:04:05were injured. Fierce fighting continues along other front
00:04:09lines. Five people were killed in Ukrainian shelling
00:04:12of Belgorod, while two died in a Russian attack on Kharkiv.
00:04:15Moscow claims to have captured two villages in the Donetsk region, while Kyiv states
00:04:19that in the past 24 hours, more than 1,400
00:04:23Russian soldiers were eliminated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr
00:04:26Zelensky warned that North Korea could
00:04:29send up to 50,000 troops to Russia and called on South
00:04:33Korea to help Ukraine's air
00:04:35defense.
00:04:40That's all for the news, dear viewers, thank you for Western Europe has experienced the hottest June and July in recorded
00:04:43history with an average temperature of
00:04:4521.6°C, announced the European
00:04:49Copernicus service. This is almost three
00:04:52degrees above average. Due to extreme heat and drought,
00:04:56more than 25,000 people have died, while fires in Spain,
00:04:59France, and Italy have destroyed more than 500,000 hectares of land.
00:05:03Historically low water levels of the rivers Seine, Rhine, and Danube have endangered
00:05:07the energy system, which is why Hungary and Romania have temporarily
00:05:10suspended the operation of nuclear reactors. Great Britain
00:05:13is currently experiencing its fifth heatwave this summer with orange
00:05:17warnings and temperatures up to 36°. And
00:05:20the ban on using hoses for watering due to drought has affected
00:05:24more than 20 million
00:05:26people.
00:05:31in eastern China after Typhoon Doksuri hit the mainland,
00:05:35the strongest storm in the country since the beginning of the year. With wind gusts of
00:05:38150 km/h, the typhoon caused massive disruptions
00:05:42to traffic. In Shanghai, about a thousand flights were canceled,
00:05:45the operation of some metro lines was suspended, and numerous
00:05:48tourist attractions were closed. Meteorologists in the city are recording
00:05:52the highest amount of rainfall in the last 150 years. Although the
00:05:55storm weakened as it moved inland, authorities warn of
00:05:59a high risk of floods and landslides in several provinces.
00:06:02Warnings have also been issued for Beijing. Officially, there are no
00:06:06human casualties, except for a report of a missing nine-year-old boy in one
00:06:09province.
00:06:14I have been living in Shanghai for 10 years, and this is the first time I feel that
00:06:18the typhoon has caused so many problems and led to such
00:06:21floods. This is the first time I have encountered such a
00:06:24situation.
00:06:27At least eight people have died, nine have been injured, and one is being
00:06:31sought in floods and landslides in the Philippines caused by days of
00:06:34heavy rains and tropical storms. The bad weather has
00:06:37affected more than 750,000 people, while over 8,000 residents
00:06:41have been housed in... evacuation centers. The most severely affected is the island
00:06:45of Luzon, where in the vicinity of the capital city of Manila, the water in some sections
00:06:48reached waist-high. Due to the floods, schools are closed, and
00:06:52ferry traffic in 20 ports has been suspended. Meteorologists
00:06:56announce new precipitation.
00:07:00An explosion occurred at the Emku arms factory in Bulgaria, reports Bulgarian
00:07:03television BTN. The factory is located near the village
00:07:07of Belitsa. According to preliminary information from this television, a truck
00:07:10caught fire, which then caused a fire in one of the factory's
00:07:14warehouses, followed by a series of explosions. Bulgarian
00:07:17television states that 300 factory workers
00:07:20were evacuated. According to Kristina Sidorova from the local
00:07:23administration, no one was
00:07:26killed in this incident.
00:07:35The red carpet has been laid out in front of the National Theater Sarajevo, marking the beginning of the final preparations
00:07:39for the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival. Also,
00:07:42ticket sales began this morning at the main box office, where crowds were reported.
00:07:46The first 10 customers were rewarded with 10 free
00:07:49tickets each for films in various programs. The Sarajevo Film Festival begins
00:07:53on Friday, August 14th, and will last until August
00:07:5721st. Large crowds were recorded this morning
00:08:00in front of the Sarajevo BKC, or Office
00:08:03Box, where the physical sale of tickets
00:08:07for the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival began, which will be
00:08:10held from August 14th to 21st.
00:08:14Numerous citizens of Sarajevo, as well as all of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also
00:08:18tourists, especially from countries in the region, arrived early
00:08:21to buy tickets for this year's
00:08:24screenings. Many of them even came, as they say,
00:08:27at 4 AM to
00:08:31get a place on time and buy the desired
00:08:35tickets. I came early in the morning, I was already here at
00:08:384 AM. We prepared a few movies.
00:08:42Teresa, Homeland, Palestine, No Man's Land and so
00:08:46on. I'm interested in socializing with the people who come here every
00:08:49year, for years, years back, we've been
00:08:53gathering. Some come as
00:08:57they came this morning, some come at 5:15 as I came
00:09:00this morning. Some come at 7:15 and are
00:09:0310th. Some come at 7 and are
00:09:0711th. Every year I am here, that, there is
00:09:10that Sarajevo spirit. Good movies, good
00:09:14fun, I just feel good. There is great
00:09:17interest in online ticket purchases, which
00:09:21began at the beginning of last week, when minor
00:09:25difficulties were recorded on the first day
00:09:27of purchase, but fortunately they were resolved.
00:09:31The interest in this year's program
00:09:33is very, very high. We resolved
00:09:37the difficulties, that was probably, you are talking about
00:09:40the first day of pre-sale of tickets when a large
00:09:44number of users who wanted to buy immediately, probably
00:09:48for a precisely defined screening.
00:09:51Online sales are still ongoing, of course, and will last until the end
00:09:55of the festival, as well as the physical sale
00:09:57of tickets here. For online ticket sales,
00:10:01certain discounts are available. The interest is enormous. Last
00:10:04year we had record ticket sales, and this year,
00:10:08according to the first day of online pre-sales
00:10:12that you mentioned, sales are up
00:10:1520% compared to the previous year. Without a doubt,
00:10:18Sarajevo this summer, from August 14th to 21st,
00:10:22will be the center of the region, as well as the European
00:10:25capital of film, when we expect numerous stars
00:10:29and world screenings of films with a special
00:10:32focus on films from Southeast Europe,
00:10:35but also on films from all over the world. Feđa Kulina,
00:10:39N1.
00:10:45UEFA, the Asian Football Confederation and CONCACAF have strongly
00:10:48criticized FIFA President Gianni Infantino for the failed plan to
00:10:52sell part of the commercial rights to the World Cup. In
00:10:55an open letter published today, they stated that Infantino
00:10:58had deliberately undermined trust and demanded an independent
00:11:02investigation. The plan envisaged selling 20% of commercial rights
00:11:06to private investors for approximately 4.2 billion
00:11:08dollars. The three confederations threatened to boycott FIFA competitions
00:11:12if they did not receive guarantees that similar plans would not
00:11:16be repeated. Leadership in football is not anyone's property, they stated in the
00:11:19announcement.
00:11:24Sarajevo will be a gathering place today for some of the most talented
00:11:27young tennis players, both male and female, from Europe and the world. Tomorrow begins
00:11:31the jubilee 30th International Tournament Open RTC
00:11:34Barcelona 1899 Sarajevo 2026
00:11:38Memorial Terzimehić San Barantintore, which will feature
00:11:41competitors from as many as 25 countries. It is a
00:11:44first-category Tennis Europe tournament for junior girls and boys up to
00:11:4816 years old, which has for three decades represented one of
00:11:51the most significant tennis events of this type in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
00:11:55The competition will last until Saturday, August 15th, when this year's
00:11:58winners will be
00:11:59announced.
00:12:03To mention a man who, unfortunately, is no longer with us for several
00:12:06years, that is the honorary president Mr. Joan Maria
00:12:10Tintoré, who was the first person who came from Barcelona to
00:12:13Sarajevo, with whom we, with whom we established contact and
00:12:17who in a way started everything. We went from the fourth
00:12:21category of Tennis Europe to this first, most prestigious one.
00:12:25There is only one stronger, which is the super category, but it is very rare and
00:12:28the Master which Tea regularly won, Tea said
00:12:32how well organized this tournament is, how important it is,
00:12:36I will say that our motto was primarily
00:12:40Tea, in fact, all those who came here to Bosnia and
00:12:43Herzegovina as young tennis players, they
00:12:46trained a lot, gave their best and achieved great
00:12:49results.
00:12:53I am very happy as a...
00:12:55tennis player from Bosnia and Herzegovina to see such a big tournament in
00:12:59our capital city, so I thank all of
00:13:03you for enabling this tournament for us and
00:13:07for following me and my results. As perhaps
00:13:11the greatest junior in BiH
00:13:14ever, to be in support of this tournament, I am really happy
00:13:18and I watch our younger generations
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00:13:23I think this is the most important tournament. perhaps in Bosnia and
00:13:26Herzegovina.
00:13:29I am sorry that every year I talk about the same thing, which is financial
00:13:33support. The Ministry of Culture and Sports does provide support, but not as much
00:13:37as it should be, so this is a unique opportunity for the
00:13:4031st tournament to be held so that all levels of
00:13:43government understand the importance of this tournament, because this is a tournament where players
00:13:46from all over Bosnia and Herzegovina play, a tournament where
00:13:5025 countries come to our
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00:13:55Finally, let's look at the weather forecast.
00:13:59Warm regards, dear viewers, high temperatures prevail throughout Bosnia and
00:14:02Herzegovina, as you can see, which is why an alert
00:14:06has been issued via the Meteoalarm system of the Federal
00:14:08Hydrometeorological Institute. Warm air will continue
00:14:12to linger over our area. For the remainder of Monday,
00:14:15it will remain mostly sunny throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:14:19dry with mostly light winds. Mostly east
00:14:22and northeast winds blow, with west and southwest winds dominating
00:14:26in Herzegovina and the southwestern part of Bosnia. All of this
00:14:29together, of course, affects temperatures. We expect that
00:14:32maximum temperature values in
00:14:35the Herzegovina area today will climb to 40°,
00:14:39in Bosnia mostly from 30 to a maximum of 36,
00:14:4237. The heatwave will continue in the coming days until
00:14:46the end of the week, it will certainly remain hot, dry
00:14:49and still rarely with showers, possibly during
00:14:52Wednesday in parts of Herzegovina. More concrete
00:14:55relief with precipitation is only possible in
00:14:59the new upcoming
00:15:00week.
00:15:05your attention, goodbye.
00:15:28The weather forecast is brought to you by your ice cream destination,
00:15:31Tropik and Crvena
00:15:33Jabuka.
00:15:45Warm regards, dear viewers, high temperatures prevail throughout Bosnia and
00:15:48Herzegovina, as you can see, which is why an alert
00:15:52has been issued via the Meteoalarm system of the Federal Hydrometeorological
00:15:56Institute. And warm air will continue to linger over our
00:15:59area. For the remainder of Monday, it will remain mostly
00:16:03sunny throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, dry with mostly light
00:16:06winds. Mostly east and northeast winds blow, with
00:16:10west and southwest winds dominating in Herzegovina
00:16:13and the southwestern part of Bosnia. All of this together, of course, affects
00:16:17temperatures. We expect that maximum
00:16:20temperature values in the Herzegovina area today
00:16:23will climb to 40°, in Bosnia mostly from 30 to
00:16:27a maximum of 36, 37. The heatwave
00:16:29will continue in the coming days until the end of the week, it will certainly
00:16:33remain hot, dry and still rarely with
00:16:36showers. Possibly during Wednesday in parts
00:16:40of Herzegovina. More concrete relief with
00:16:43precipitation is only possible in the new upcoming week.
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00:17:36We continue to talk about heat, about the extremes that
00:17:39are happening to us, about
00:17:42drought, which is no longer just an ecological problem, but is becoming
00:17:46a matter of energy security. Due to
00:17:49record low water levels of the Danube, Hungary,
00:17:52we remind you, has almost completely stopped the operation of its largest nuclear
00:17:56power plant. Reduced production was recorded at the Krško power plant
00:17:59in Slovenia. When there is not enough water for cooling
00:18:02reactors, power plants must reduce production or shut down completely,
00:18:06and that opens up a question that perhaps until yesterday seemed
00:18:10unimaginable. Can climate change threaten the stability
00:18:13of electricity supply in Europe, and what does that mean for Bosnia
00:18:17and Herzegovina, which relies on hydropower plants and thermal power plants?
00:18:21Are we ready for a future in which droughts, heatwaves, and water scarcity
00:18:24will directly affect electricity production and its price? About that
00:18:28with energy expert Mr. Edhem Bičakčić this
00:18:31morning. Good morning and welcome to a new day. Good morning to you and
00:18:35the viewers of N1. Mr. Bičakčić, what kind
00:18:38of times are we witnessing, where climate change literally,
00:18:42following what we see in Hungary and Slovenia, and long
00:18:46ago in Bosnia and Herzegovina, dictates whether
00:18:49tomorrow we will have enough energy for our own needs or not?
00:18:53Uh, climate change
00:18:57causes a series of disruptions, they are a product
00:19:01of greenhouse gas emissions,
00:19:04CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, and that affects
00:19:08the melting of Arctic glaciers,
00:19:12prolonged dry periods, the spread
00:19:15of fires, and floods, on the other hand,
00:19:19the fall of large amounts of water in a short period.
00:19:23These cycles alternate and are becoming
00:19:26more intense. In Europe, this
00:19:29is already felt very drastically, and Bosnia and Herzegovina is
00:19:33a somewhat less threatened area so far,
00:19:37but it is coming its turn, and we are already
00:19:41seeing a greater spread of forest fires
00:19:44in areas where this has not happened before,
00:19:48and outside , for example, Herzegovina, where people
00:19:51have always dealt with this, and then sometimes with
00:19:54floods. Bosnia and Herzegovina cannot avoid
00:19:58this. Bosnia and Herzegovina contributes very little to greenhouse
00:20:01gas emissions in global terms, it is measured in promilles,
00:20:05meaning 1 part of that, in
00:20:09European terms in percentages, one to
00:20:122%, but regardless, our production
00:20:15structure, especially in energy, is based on coal-fired
00:20:19thermal power plants, and they are major polluters, or rather
00:20:22they cause, uh,
00:20:25they cause, uh, an increase in
00:20:29CO2 emissions. Yes, uh, we are signatories
00:20:33of the Energy Community and thus with Europe since 2006.
00:20:37By doing so, we committed to following
00:20:40all these European energy policies.
00:20:43We have committed, but we are not following them and have not entered
00:20:47the transition. which is necessary
00:20:50to overcome this, so for
00:20:54us the cuts will be drastic, this
00:20:57is shown by these situations. Now we will talk about these drastic
00:21:01cuts and specifically about Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would like to briefly only
00:21:04dwell on these nuclear power plant reactors that are being shut
00:21:08down due to lack of water in Hungary. Krško is also threatened, I say, in
00:21:11Slovenia. Now, how much can
00:21:15such situations affect the price of electricity
00:21:18in the region? It is very concrete that Hungary is currently facing
00:21:22scarcity, that it is implementing reductions at all levels,
00:21:25however, looking at the future trend-wise, how can this situation
00:21:29we are currently facing affect the region? For example,
00:21:32the shutdown of the nuclear power plant
00:21:36in Hungary drastically affects the region of
00:21:38Southeast Europe, because it is a large capacity, and
00:21:42the extremely low level of the Danube is a phenomenon that perhaps
00:21:45is being seriously recorded for the first time now. You are witnesses
00:21:50that you can cross the Danube in some
00:21:52places, that I saw in one recording
00:21:56that a car can drive across the Danube, which is
00:22:00unprecedented, which is unprecedented. In such
00:22:02circumstances, there is not enough water to cool the reactor, and
00:22:06if there is not enough water, the reactor must be either reduced or
00:22:10subsequently shut down. Not only in Hungary, but there are problems with
00:22:13the nuclear plant in Romania. Here,
00:22:16the first problems are visible with the Krško
00:22:19nuclear plant on the Sava, mhm, and it has
00:22:22reduced production, but the possibility of
00:22:25a complete shutdown is being seriously considered,
00:22:28which then leads, for example, Slovenia into a drastic
00:22:32level of need for electricity, then Croatia and the entire
00:22:35region, and yet in these current
00:22:39circumstances in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the public
00:22:44to the task that is somehow
00:22:47expected of it. What do we rely on, how much electricity
00:22:50comes from thermal power plants, how much from hydropower plants, how much from
00:22:53wind farms? What is it that we currently have at
00:22:57our disposal in Bosnia and Herzegovina? Well, Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:23:01had, before the war, 4
00:23:04megawatts of electricity production capacity for electricity, of
00:23:08which 2 megawatts were hydropower, 2000 megawatts were
00:23:12thermal, but production in thermal power plants was
00:23:1560 to 70%, because they
00:23:18operate for a greater number of hours than hydropower plants, mhm,
00:23:22depending on the hydrological year, what kind of precipitation
00:23:25there is. Uh, so it went up
00:23:28to 70% from thermal power plants, in good
00:23:31hydrological conditions 50, something lower, mhm. After
00:23:34the war, the private sector built
00:23:381600 megawatts of new capacity, 300
00:23:42megawatts of thermal power plants in Stanari,
00:23:45then over 900 megawatts of solar power plants
00:23:48on the transmission and distribution
00:23:51grid, about 300 megawatts of
00:23:54wind farms, and 100 megawatts of small
00:23:57hydropower plants. So most of the solar are 900 megawatts,
00:24:01most of them, well, privately owned, all privately
00:24:04owned. And the state public sector, I mean the electric power companies
00:24:08have not produced a single kilowatt of solar energy, but only maintained
00:24:11existing production and consumed
00:24:15existing capacities and worked on existing ones. There are also
00:24:18, for example, wind farms.
00:24:20Uh, Podveležje was built by Elektroprivreda BiH, Mesihovina was built by
00:24:24Elektroprivreda Mostar, and Elektroprivreda Mostar
00:24:28built two hydropower plants, Mostarsko Blato and
00:24:30Tihaljina. These other capacities have not, although they were
00:24:34designed, although all the preconditions for their construction exist,
00:24:38they are not being built today. Ultimately, what does that
00:24:41mean, Mr. Bičakčić, in conditions where we are moving towards solving
00:24:45dirty energy, when we will pay penalties for CO2,
00:24:48when our thermal power plants are being shut
00:24:51down, have we perhaps started shutting
00:24:55down something from which we get energy too soon? We have
00:24:58deeply abandoned thermal
00:25:00power plants, or rather coal mines that
00:25:04provide coal, so production from four
00:25:08years ago with 6 million tons has been reduced to 3
00:25:11million tons and lower. We will not achieve
00:25:14production of even 3 million tons this year in the mines
00:25:18in the Federation. What does that mean? That means that the
00:25:21electric power company in Sarajevo is an importer of electricity.
00:25:25And one terawatt, that's a million
00:25:29kilowatts, uh, a thousand
00:25:32GWh annually imports
00:25:35electricity. The Sarajevo electric power company from Trebinje imports
00:25:39500,000 megawatts. The Mostar electric power company
00:25:42is balanced at approximately zero.
00:25:45So we are now already importers from exporters.
00:25:49We have become importers of electricity, absolutely.
00:25:52That is a phenomenon that has occurred, although when
00:25:56we look at Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole with the private
00:25:59sector, we are still today exporters of electricity,
00:26:03which is rare in the region of Southeast Balkans,
00:26:06because these new facilities are producing, all of which are going
00:26:10for export, although export is difficult, but
00:26:14let's say on Friday the prices on the stock market for daily
00:26:18uh purchases were 230 euros per
00:26:21megawatt, that's four times more than
00:26:24standard, if you place it in the evening
00:26:27when solar power plants shut down, then the price
00:26:30goes up to 500 euros per meter.
00:26:32for watt, that's mm, that's a jump, the stock market immediately
00:26:36reacts and you have to buy electricity at those expensive
00:26:39prices which practically
00:26:43doesn't exist, there's not enough, and at what prices do we buy when
00:26:46we import? Here are the Sarajevo and Trebinje power companies, if you say
00:26:49yes, so let me clarify for our viewers, the
00:26:53energy we sell at high prices is sold by
00:26:57private companies, or they were made for their own needs, those
00:27:001600 MW hours which are...
00:27:11imported for the needs of their citizens of Sarajevo,
00:27:14Trebinje, through those power companies, at what price do
00:27:17they then? I hope they realized that import
00:27:20before these drastic jumps on
00:27:24the stock exchange. In the first half of the year, that price on
00:27:27the stock exchange was from 50 to 80 euros per megawatt, and that
00:27:31was... relatively favorable and
00:27:34in those circumstances it could also pay off,
00:27:38and today whoever is forced to import, they will pay dearly for it.
00:27:42I believe that uh they can
00:27:45still produce that amount of electricity today,
00:27:49they can also
00:27:52buy all offered
00:27:55quantities that the private sector offers
00:27:58to them, but especially the power company in
00:28:01Sarajevo... "for this year
00:28:04rejected small producers with the
00:28:07explanation that it is a complicated
00:28:10contract, that it does not pay off, and they only took
00:28:13some large producers with whom it is easier and
00:28:17simpler to work, and they refused to
00:28:21buy energy that is offered to them at the doorstep at prices that
00:28:25are lower than market prices, which are produced in the country, which are produced in
00:28:28the country, that is a catastrophic policy, that is
00:28:31responsibility." Sometimes they asked me
00:28:35uh uh
00:28:38is that even possible? Well, you see, it is possible. Mr. Bičakšić,
00:28:41based on your years of professional experience and
00:28:45looking at these trends, who will pay
00:28:48the highest price first of the open market, second
00:28:52of that import of electricity, where could
00:28:55these prices go and how likely is it that
00:28:58social peace can be bought in the future as it has
00:29:02been a fact. done so far, where is the limit when the
00:29:05public sector will no longer be able to buy social peace, but we will
00:29:09go for market prices to procure energy and citizens will
00:29:13pay for that energy, that should have been
00:29:16established long ago in its entirety, it had
00:29:20started in that direction, but it was very quickly
00:29:23abandoned, because it requires a responsible approach,
00:29:26responsible work and responsible management, people do not
00:29:30want to manage responsibly, they want to... "be sure that
00:29:33they will not make a mistake, they will not make a mistake if they do nothing, that
00:29:37is what it comes down to, it has brought us to this point, it
00:29:41has brought us to the point where the power company in Sarajevo will this
00:29:44year show several hundred million
00:29:47in losses, that there are uncollected receivables
00:29:51that amount to billions, billions, who are the biggest
00:29:55debtors, who are the biggest debtors, and they are not
00:29:58from the highest debtors are
00:30:01again public." sector, it cannot exist,
00:30:05postojati,
00:30:07a consumer who does not pay for electricity for two months
00:30:11cannot exist, he must be disconnected and
00:30:14resolve that issue in the future, otherwise the
00:30:17substance is being eaten which has largely been eaten
00:30:21in such a way that coal was paid
00:30:24in advance and was never delivered, and that on that
00:30:28basis there is that debt that the government needs to
00:30:32resolve. "Buying coal below market price, where the mines are brought into
00:30:35a situation where they are not profitable, that price relationship also in Bosnia and Herzegovina
00:30:39must be regulated in such a way that every kilowatt is
00:30:43fairly paid, every,
00:30:46every ton of coal that is delivered to power plants at
00:30:49market prices, that electricity is also sold at market
00:30:52prices, well, whoever takes on that cut, someone
00:30:56will have to, and from what I see, they are leaving it."
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