Due to the extremely high number of asylum seekers, the European Commission (EC) is considering the possibility of canceling the visa-free regime for the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), Sarajevo daily Dnevni Avaz wrote Thursday.

The paper claims Brussels is considering all measures contained in the control mechanism for the visa-free regime which were introduced right after the opening of European borders.

The shocking warning to the Bosnian authorities came from the recent EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs.

On Wednesday, the Sarajevo daily wrote about the wave of asylum seekers from BiH who are flooding into Belgium, and have Brussels up in arms.

In an urgent and confidential letter to the BiH Ministry of Security and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, adviser in the BiH Mission in Brussels Muaz Dedajlic talks about the reasons why the EC is threatening to reinstate visas.

The people we've talked to said the EC has bad news for BiH. In a very short time, BiH has gone from a country which had the best image regarding the obeyance of the rules of the visa-free regime with the EU, to a country which has the second highest number of asylum seekers, after Macedonia, Dedajlic wrote.