Nezavisne novine: BANJALUKA – BiH will receive in this year 74 million Euros of assistance within the pre-accession fund of the EU (IPA fund), said yesterday Osman Topčagić, director of the Directorate for European Integrations of BIH.

Topčagić stated that within the IPA fund of BiH, last year was provided 58 million Euros for the first component, which was related to assistance to transition and institutional development, while four more million Euros was intended for programmes of cross-border cooperation, i.e. for the second component.