The European Commission will recommend on Tuesday that the European Union begin formal talks with Bosnia-Herzegovina on joining the 27-nation bloc, the commission’s president has said. “Bosnia and Herzegovina has taken impressive steps forward. More progress has been achieved in just over a year than in a whole decade,” Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg early on Tuesday. “We will decide to recommend to the council to open accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina.” The announcement means the EU executive is satisfied that Bosnia has met the necessary crit…