‘’The protests in B&H against poverty and parasitic political class have led to well-established reflexes. The fastest to naturally react were interventionists. Now is the chance for reaction, wrote Ed Joseph, who worked in the offices of the international representatives of B&H, Kosovo and in other places. Washington and Brussels now have to take matters into their hands and initiate reform in the B&H Constitution, he said. The historical reflections on the situation in B&H can be discussed with those who have been long considered protectors: Austrians, Turks, Serbs and Croats. The warning of the High Representative in B&H, Valentin Inzko, that if the situation gets out of control there could be a possible deployment of European troops was a lapse…As good Europeans Belgrade and Zagreb called for stability. Yet, perhaps in B&H it has been too stable until now? And maybe help should not come from the outside. What is happening now by itself gives cause for hope. The protests on the streets have stalled. In many towns civic assemblies have been formed that try to practice democracy directly. A form of political public that has not been seen in the history of B&H has been formed. The requests for getting rid of criminal privatization and the abolition of privileges of politicians will hardly have quick success. But mobilization has succeeded in what the international community has never achieved: the beginning of the creation of civil society’’, he writes in his commentary for Neue Zuercher Zeitung.
(Source: Deutsche Welle)