Under a deal signed in Sarajevo the financing will comprise 22.5 million euros in grants, as well as favorable loans totalling 31 million euros from state-owned German bank KfW, a finance ministry statement said.

The funding is to be allocated towards the building of Bosnia's first wind farm, improvements in waste water disposal and upgrading hydro-power plants and the country's power distribution network.

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