News for today's 2018

<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dOTMgWxNYog3flkETrBzFmSX5K_eIG1_AN2i8i58lsDVrLOr4JfdvcKKo9uJLljrlQ2YEJPo4GdgYblxEnod3E7enrckTfhb9o74yihKNvQv4RFQq9O23yjavIKkW6yGH27VaIt5onDi/s1600/Bosna-i-Hercegovina-EU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dOTMgWxNYog3flkETrBzFmSX5K_eIG1_AN2i8i58lsDVrLOr4JfdvcKKo9uJLljrlQ2YEJPo4GdgYblxEnod3E7enrckTfhb9o74yihKNvQv4RFQq9O23yjavIKkW6yGH27VaIt5onDi/s400/Bosna-i-Hercegovina-EU.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ANYTHING BUT DEMOCRACY – EU’S POLICY IN BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA (BIH<i>)</i></span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An EU-brokered agreement to bring BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S constitution into accordance with the 2009 EUROPEAN Court of Human Rights’ Sejdic-Finci verdict does not serve to create a functional democratic system in BIH, with equal rights and opportunities for all its citizens, but is rather an attempt to appease the most narrow and chauvinistic interests of BIH’S oligarchs. <span style="color: #990000;"><i>See: </i></span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY (IC) AND ORGANIZED CRIME (OC) ARE THE MAIN OBSTACLES IN SOLVING THE CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (BIH)</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/bosnia-european-unions-stepchild.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/07/bosnia-european-unions-stepchild.html</a></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the heels of an outrageous “bailout” package for the Republic of CYPRUS that punished ordinary GREEK CYPRIOTS for the organized brigand of their politicians and bankers, the EUROPEAN UNION (EU) has made another generous offer to its long-time protectorate, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA. Leaders of the seven leading political parties in BIH convened in Brussels in an attempt to, finally, agree to a set of constitutional reforms necessitated by the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejdi%C4%87_and_Finci_v._Bosnia_and_Herzegovina">2009 European Court of Human Rights’ Sejdic-Finci verdict</a></b>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjV35Hs-_zwqXkAHer_0haUV-pFHxKrZoBTT5NiZM22IM3NvFfBLK84Cg88rE0KFzQ9w0mp_4fERAVOP-u03XW6qQZBcty7kpmLlfqP7MO5pmZ65ToOnRaWv5HMowzSncAsQ8IzYt3_DtZ/s1600/story.bosnia.court.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjV35Hs-_zwqXkAHer_0haUV-pFHxKrZoBTT5NiZM22IM3NvFfBLK84Cg88rE0KFzQ9w0mp_4fERAVOP-u03XW6qQZBcty7kpmLlfqP7MO5pmZ65ToOnRaWv5HMowzSncAsQ8IzYt3_DtZ/s1600/story.bosnia.court.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Bosnia's constitution violates European human rights law.</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The court then found that BIH’S present constitutional order, a result of the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, was patently discriminatory in not allowing members of BIH’S non-“constitutive peoples” (i.e. anyone other than self-declared BOSNIAKS, SERBS and CROATS) to stand for many public offices, including the three member presidency.</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BIH, AN OLIGARCH-DOMINATED “APARTHEID REGIME”?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, four years since the original decision, and a decade and a half since the signing of the Dayton Agreement – and, accordingly, the emergence of a completely unworkable constitutional order in BIH – what has the EU offered to the BOSNIANS? Concrete steps to establish substantive respect for basic human and democratic rights, and a rationalization of the public administration? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Apparently, deaf, blind and mute to the suggestion that what they had produced in BIH was an oligarch-dominated, <a href="http://www.david-campbell.org/wp-content/documents/Apartheid_cartography.pdf"><b>apartheid regime</b></a>, the international community (the EU, in particular) insists on experimenting with “solutions” that, as Jakob Finci notes, would not be tolerated in any other EUROPEAN country for even a moment. <i>See: <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bih-stagnation.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/bosnia-and-herzegovina-bih-stagnation.html</a></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AqRHP_XTiRUuO7BCNtvqE41zyDXFzgoRlu2O7IoGGOeN0HfhDlgk4484_eDw_20uD_m-mZPdrYxr6S5EoLj-0A-h0bpeFkiUxj9sJhVvq5tjnAzF6T-iJAVi4x19RyKBeMHK0vLlfz2O/s1600/bosnia_nov2011_400_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AqRHP_XTiRUuO7BCNtvqE41zyDXFzgoRlu2O7IoGGOeN0HfhDlgk4484_eDw_20uD_m-mZPdrYxr6S5EoLj-0A-h0bpeFkiUxj9sJhVvq5tjnAzF6T-iJAVi4x19RyKBeMHK0vLlfz2O/s320/bosnia_nov2011_400_1.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This particular set of solutions is worth examining closer. The offer, which six of the seven parties have agreed to (the oligarchs in question – including the SDA who, for the moment, remains in opposition) is based on the following:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">INDEPENDENT SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SNSD) SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SDP) APPEARS TO BE THE MAIN GENERATORS OF THE CURRENT CRISIS</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BIH will be divided into two primary electoral      districts: the FEDERATION OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (FBIH) and the REPUBLIKA      SRPSKA (RS).</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The FBIH will be further divided into ten additional      electoral districts, corresponding to the existing cantonal borders, which      will each elect three electors, on the basis of which two presidents will      be chosen.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The RS will be one-single electoral district and will      elect one president.</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It seems Brcko District will be allowed to choose which      method of the two they prefer. It remains unclear, however, (a) who      exactly will choose, and (b) whether this will mean that Brcko itself, at      least electorally, would become part of either the FBiH or the RS – thus      negating the whole premise of the existence of the District, in the first      place.</span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It remains to be seen how any of the above addresses the question of discrimination of minorities. The EU’s great suggestion has, essentially, boiled down to removing overt ethnic labels on electoral ballots. Thus, no longer will the candidate be, for instance a “SERB,” he will just be a candidate of the SERB Democratic Party (SDS). And let’s not kid ourselves, it will indeed be a “he.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"ETHNIC CLEANSING - INSTITUTIONALIZED" BY IC? </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moreover, in practice, the EU has ensured with this proposal that the results of the SERB nationalist campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide in eastern BIH, in particular, will remain institutionalized. <span style="color: #cc0000;">See</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">INFLUENTIAL ISLAMIC COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA</span></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/ethnic-rift-key-hindrance-to-bosnias.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/ethnic-rift-key-hindrance-to-bosnias.html</a>. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The president chosen by the RS will continue to be a SERB nationalist. How this addresses the concerns of SERBS in FBiH or BOSNIAK or CROAT returnees in the RS (currently <a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/banning-human-rights-march-republika-srpska-unacceptable-2012-12-10"><b>harassed by authorities</b></a>) is anyone’s guess. It also remains to be seen how this same proposal will mesh with alleged ongoing, American- led efforts, to simultaneously shrink the number of cantons in the FBiH. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">None of this should come as a surprise to even semi-interested observers of EU’s policy towards BIH. Whether it is close studies of EUROPEAN policy in the late eighties and nineties, or the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/books/excerpt-clinton-tapes.html?pagewanted=5&_r=2&"><b>actual private conversations between European and American leaders</b></a> during the same period.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC NORMS IN BIH, HAS NEVER BEEN A TOP PRIORITY FOR THE IC.</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There seems to be no effort creating a functional democratic system in BIH, with equal rights and opportunities for all its citizens, but an attempt to appease the most narrow and chauvinistic interests of BIH’S oligarchs. The thought being, apparently, that if one can appease the<b> <a href="http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ip/journal/v40/n4/abs/8800038a.html">big men</a></b>, then “we” can finally rid ourselves of these squabbling Slavs all together.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If this proposal is to become a reality, the EU will have only succeeded in ensuring a <b>SDP/SDA, HDZ</b> and a <b>SDS/SNSD</b> presidency for the foreseeable future. See: <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/bosnia-and-herzegovinas-internal-twist.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/bosnia-and-herzegovinas-internal-twist.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It will have done nothing to include the Roma, Jewish or other minority communities in BIH, nor anything to include BOSNIANS as such in the political process. This is merely further international sanctioning of the post-Dayton status quo in BiH – oligarch-mandated division of spoils and the creation of criminal, ethnically cleansed, feudal “statelets”.</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">YOUTH OF FBIH FAVOR APPOINTING A TECHNOCRAT ADMINISTRATION</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihG5_eA2phgnxIkuzk1g3qabDu9cCtsXcuTSCczp8UMHmcGAAh4Rl1stjdL91sgG7Q97rUQcF5q8WbDeAIHumySByzoAIXsaLHCNuToUCccEWFOrZT8L75dnrDQDKXuXEDgcpK6KUUiKf/s1600/nasa_stranka_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihG5_eA2phgnxIkuzk1g3qabDu9cCtsXcuTSCczp8UMHmcGAAh4Rl1stjdL91sgG7Q97rUQcF5q8WbDeAIHumySByzoAIXsaLHCNuToUCccEWFOrZT8L75dnrDQDKXuXEDgcpK6KUUiKf/s200/nasa_stranka_0.jpg" width="200" /></a></b></div><br />  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The entire situation has become so repentant, that even <b>Nasa Stranka (Our Party),</b>in particular, – the small, social-liberal party, and the hope of many young, progressive BOSNIANS – has suggested that the on-going non-functioning of the FBiH be resolved by the appointment of a <b><a href="http://www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/nasa-stranka-predlaze-kreiranje-ekspertne-vlade-fbih/130321120">technocrat administration</a></b>. Meanwhile, the once social democratic SDP has abandoned any premise of actual social democracy, and today insists only on the Office of High Representative (OHR) <b><a href="http://www.vecernji.ba/vijesti/selimovic-vrijeme-je-da-se-ohr-uozbilji-krsi-se-mirovni-sporazum-clanak-528555">resolving its disputes with the SDA</a></b>. For their part, the OHR these days mostly keeps vague and repetitive declarations about “good governance.” Thus, progressive, party politics in BIH end up in technocracy and inter-party squabbles.<i> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">See: </span></span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">POTENTIAL POWER OF YOUTH MOVEMENTS IN THE BALKANS</span></i><b><span> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">BOSNIA, CURSED BY EUROPEAN UNION (EU) TECHNOCRATS</span></span> </span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/bosnia-cursed-by-european-union-eu.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2011/08/bosnia-cursed-by-european-union-eu.html</a></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXMsTK0TeyOoqG2s7FJO0KYu_ifGseth_DpEHNgWaNl4Ecj2bmggn16PZvrGJqL5848SdMS3O9tAWEoCZIMUNk4CWNM-l__1fb3ZLrtOcmg_5Bt59mB8Nwi5tziydKaZ7R_9-Fs4-DSQp/s1600/EA97FCB6-26B4-44D3-9719-B02161BA40E9_mw1024_n_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxXMsTK0TeyOoqG2s7FJO0KYu_ifGseth_DpEHNgWaNl4Ecj2bmggn16PZvrGJqL5848SdMS3O9tAWEoCZIMUNk4CWNM-l__1fb3ZLrtOcmg_5Bt59mB8Nwi5tziydKaZ7R_9-Fs4-DSQp/s200/EA97FCB6-26B4-44D3-9719-B02161BA40E9_mw1024_n_s.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zeljko Komsic, former SDP member and now independent CROAT member of the BIH Presidency, has announced the formation of yet another party – the<b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Demokratska.fronta.BiH?fref=ts">Democratic Front of BiH</a></b>. While Komsic is doubtlessly the single most popular politician in the country, it seems highly unlikely that yet another party will do much to salvage BIH’S future. At least Komsic, however, has identified the missing ingredient in BIH politics: democracy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While the people of CYPRUS, GREECE, ITALY, and SPAIN – not to mention the on-going revolutions in the Arab world – are in the streets, dismantling the edifices of their crumbling regimes, BOSNIANS remain sequestered, their hopes pinned to the fate of the national football team. Until this fact changes, nothing will change. Time and again, the EU, the US and the domestic political class have betrayed the genuine aspirations of BOSNIANS for reconciliation and democracy. Citizens of BIH have only themselves to look to now for a way out of this institutionalized crisis. <span style="color: #cc0000;">See:</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> BALKAN PEOPLE FEEL THAT THE EU NO LONGER EMANATES CONFIDENCE</span></i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/crisis-in-western-balkans-integration.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/01/crisis-in-western-balkans-integration.html </a></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/crime-corruption-and-political-system.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/09/crime-corruption-and-political-system.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Adapted by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring from the original article written by Jasmin Mujanović</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></i><br />

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