Of course, this country has different definitions and different problems. The one closest to me is that that here is one country, with two entities, three constitutive peoples, four traditional religions and hundreds of problems.
Certainly not the biggest, but currently the most talked about problem is the implementation of the decision of the Court in Strasbourg in the case of Sejdic and Finci, which has been standing still, unimplemented, since 22nd December 2009. Of course, after the implementation of this decision, there will be at least 99 huge problems left remaining, starting from corruption, huge unemployment, stagnation of the economy, restitution of property to neighboring relations, definition of borders, making the administration cheaper and all those reforms which we know we need to complete prior to negotiations about accession to the European Union and NATO.
However, it is visible that for such a step there should be unity of the leaders who run this country, not the ethnicity-based unity but rather a unique vision of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2020 or so. Listening nowadays to messages of those leaders, we always hear “my people”, “my entity” and “my party”, yet we never hear “my country”, “our citizens” or something that would be unifying us all. Even the placement of the soccer representation to the World Championship has not been welcome with delight in the whole country, thus certainly the results from Brazil will somewhere be welcome with joy in case of a victory or with even a greater joy, in some other parts of the country, in case of a defeat. Therefore if “the second most important thing in the world” cannot unite us, the question is what can?
What can unite us is the understanding that the only route for us is the European Union and NATO as, even without this, we have been left out as a black hole in the Balkans, surrounded by the countries which have been in those integrations already, or which have been doing everything they can to get there as soon as possible. It is clear that conditions for accession will become increasingly harder and more complicated, therefore it will be very difficult to meet the basic postulates of the Union, playing the “my entity”, “my people” and such cards.
It is obvious that for the country, which has constantly been having pre-election campaigns, it is very difficult to achieve unity in anything, including the manner of accession to the EU and NATO, but it is also clear that elections will not resolve anything, as there is no party (for the time being) which is publicly against it. The truth is that there are some threats that joining NATO will require a partial referendum, as if NATO wants and can accept the membership of 51% of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
If we are unable to change our leaders, it is very hard to expect that they will, in their accustomed politics, change their views, hence it only remains to rely on citizens, on the civil society in the widest meaning of the word, which will be prepared to say ENOUGH. Simply, such politics makes us sink deeper and deeper, we get into huge debts with the international financial institutions, as we have not exceeded the indebtedness threshold that takes us into a future debt slavery, while all the funds, we have been getting under not too favorable terms, we spend on paying alimonies to the budget to cover the costs of huge salaries of those who make decisions about us, without allocating any cents for productive investments.
Even the 5-C corridor project, which could be a version of the new deal from the USA’s thirties of the last century, it all comes down to who will take more money, thus in terms of the cost by kilometer, we have been building the most expensive highway in Europe, as if it is all made of viaducts and tunnels, even when it is going through lowland meadows.
How can the civil society get serious for something like this? How to raise awareness of the citizens that this way we are only being promised a road to disaster and our children are being promised potential employment in those parts of the world where there is no any labor force. It is hard for anyone to be happy about such perspective, even for those who dislike this country and claim that it should not exist, as such.
The clock is ticking, time does not work for us, thus if we do not do anything for ourselves, nobody else will. The phrase “there’s no salvation, but we will not go down” is all too nice, but even this is not guaranteed by anyone.
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