From Bildt to Sattler: The Path of Reform Fog

By Rasim Belko

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The European path of Bosnia and Herzegovina has turned into a highway of suffering and conflict. A path leading to the general disintegration of the socio-political being of BiH. Instead of a path towards better values, democracy, and development, we are moving down a wrong path towards centuries past.

We started and then stopped. We regressed instead of moving forward.

There are many culprits. Indispensable in guilt are domestic quasi-politicians and false leaders, but in reality, tribal leaders of three ethnic groups, more similar than twins, but with an ingrained tribal mentality, as if they were from different parts of the world, so they fear each other, hate each other...

However, the biggest culprits are those who present themselves to us as bringers of a better and normal tomorrow. But in reality, they have brought us all sorts of chaos, frozen us in time and space. They are playing with our country and with each individual's destiny.

They reformed us and the country from bad to worse. They squandered millions and trillions, and the result is still an unstable and disorganized country, further from the European Union than the Sun is from the Earth.

An old folk saying states, "One false friend can do you more harm than five enemies."

In the Bosnian-Herzegovinian reality, exactly that has happened. Harm in abundance, and good nowhere to be found.

Our friends, but in reality, viceroys of various, mostly bad plans for us, have shaped and reshaped our destiny. They are reshaping it even today.

In the period since the "opening" of our country's European path, crises and troubles have been succeeding each other. Political and every other kind. The most developed branches of the economy are crime and corruption. Others are on their last breath or have already died.

Who remembers Wilfred Martens today, the president of some kind of Police Reform Commission in BiH, established at the beginning of the summer of 2004. That commission had a deadline of the end of 2004 to complete its work, reform and unite the police structures in BiH.

The reform failed. The reformers found jobs elsewhere, and the police structures in BiH continue to be like armies with different flags.

This was one of the conditions from the European Commission's Feasibility Study. And there are conditions in other segments of BiH society as well.

Do you remember the story about the Coordination Mechanism. Here too, our European "friends" have deceived us, turning the state of BiH into a set of subsystems where no one tolerates anyone else. What do we have from that Mechanism today, and whether anyone knows it exists is a big question. European pseudo-experts have carried out other reforms, spending and wasting the money of European taxpayers across BiH, from the fight against corruption to the fight for the environment.

And in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the only things that flourish continuously are corruption and flowers.

From time to time, European policy in and towards Bosnia and Herzegovina changes. Such a policy winked at Dragan Čović, a former camp commander, today a promoter of criminal values and a worshiper of criminal para-state formations, to submit the Application for membership in the EU on behalf of BiH. An unprecedented farce. A man who represents all the opposites of European values is today, thanks to the policy of the European Union, a promoter of such values.

Everything the EU has touched in BiH has ended up in the dustbin of history. It is difficult to find any area where they could be credited with successfully completing a process.

And today in BiH, we have apartheid, segregation, discrimination. Those who implement apartheid and other calamities are today the closest associates and partners of the Union and its representatives in BiH.

That Union, as well as its member states, take as relevant partners individuals obsessed with crime, and inscribed on the American black book.
And is there any need to talk about the intentions and directions of European diplomacy in BiH?

It is time to initiate a new course. Enough of selling reform fog. From Bildt to Sattler.