BOSNIA-ECONOMY-SOCIAL-POVERTY-UNEMPLOYEMENT-STRIKE

Workers of the construction company "Hidrogradnja" hold placards as they demonstrate in front of the government building in Sarajevo, on February 5, 2018 to protest against the conditions and social rights of the workers. After Bosnia's war in the 1990s, business gradually went downhill like at many state-run firms hit by both the transition to a market economy for which they were not equipped, and mismanagement. According to trade unions, between 50,000 and 65,000 former or current employees of mostly state companies, such as hospitals, mines or public transport, will not get their pension, as the companies had not been paying into the state pension fund. Tax authorities estimate that unpaid social contributions amount to almost two billion euros, or half of Bosnia's annual national budget. / AFP PHOTO / ELVIS BARUKCIC (Photo credit should read ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images)