Brutal ethnic fighting left at least 100,000 dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. The U.S. brokered peace there, but the fragile, multi-ethnic state is once again in crisis. NPR's Frank Another West Balkan country, it was identified as a potential candidate in 2003 and applied in 2009 to become an EU member. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (candidate since 2022) is the world’s First World: 1. A country that was aligned with the West and opposed to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this use of First World has largely European Union Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish note: only the 24 official languages are listed; German, the major language of Germany and Austria, is the most widely spoken mother tongue - about 16% of the EU In 2019, the median age at first marriage or civil union was 29.4 years for women and 30.6 years for men, compared with 27.0 and 28.9, respectively, in 1999The median age at marriage for all marriages (rather than just first marriages) has been slowly increasing since the early 2000sThe median age for females in 2019 was the highest on How did Bosnia end up with the world’s most complex administration? The Balkan country of about 3.2 million is facing a difficult set of choices in its ninth general election since the first .

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