While waiting for the European Council's decision on whether to open accession negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union, the question arises as to whether we really have the strength to deal with all the challenges that such a decision presents. In other words, as much as it seems that some steps have been made in this regard, one cannot escape the impression that we are still far behind in many aspects of our lives, and that the problems our society is dealing with are so great that more will have to pass a lot of water to remove them, to make this community functional and finally get out of the shackles of ethno-national primates. Because until we create a healthy and positive atmosphere for life, which will not include the ethnic principle and corrupt partitocracy as the basic points of existence, every lightly promised progression and optimism will remain in the background.
No matter how much our eventual future membership in the Union brings hope that one day Bosnia and Herzegovina will truly be a country in which postulates based on civilizational values and relationships towards all aspects of life apply, with citizens as free people who exist worthy of a human being, necessarily is to do a lot to even imagine any future and improvement for the majority of those who are still here to live. Things, no matter what decisions are made by international institutions, must first be initiated within ourselves, i.e. there must be a real will to change something, a true commitment to be better, to create opportunities and conditions that will enable us to make what is ours we capitalize on essential values and bring them to light. And in order for all this to be possible and feasible, BiH first of all needs new impulses and movements, which will finally leave behind the rhetoric of the nineties of the last century and constantly search for a new paradigm of coexistence, which will represent a kind of new social agreement about what we really are and why we want this country to exist. Without that, everything else just seems like a colorful lie, trick and deception, without that essential insight into our potentials and possibilities, we will forever remain trapped in this same living mud that is still our only constant today.
Of course, if the decision of the European Council is positive, it will in any case be a significant step towards our attempt to get closer to the European Union, but that decision in itself, however significant it may be, will in no way reduce the level of internal friction and sabotage. to which we as citizens have been exposed for the last thirty years. Only then, if the negotiations are open, will the long-term, in many respects painful process of our dealing with everything that has been constantly pushed under the carpet since the end of the war and the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, begin. Government crises, corrupt political elites that have networked our socio-political reality along all lines, partitocratic octopuses in conjunction with corruption systems, the rhetoric of nationalist exclusivity and the denial of all those cultural links that connect the local peoples and refer them to each other, all these represent painful wounds which will have to be healed and overcome. And so that their change must not be cosmetic in any way, but fundamental and essential. Everything else, every kind of calculation and avoidance to deal with the problems that are suffocating us as directly as possible, will lead us to new defeats and additional breakdowns of the already fragile community and statehood.
If we keep in mind the global situation, wars and current crises that constantly shake our planet, all the actors of our political and social field will have to make enormous efforts to give those key answers about the meaning and reasons of what we are fighting for. There must be no more mere declarative commitment to changes, they must really come, they must be visible, made aware and implemented in the most literal sense. There will be a lot of work, even more challenges, occasional falls and stumbles as well, but if there really is that real will to one day be a country on the scale of man, oriented and committed to man, then we have no choice but to roll up our sleeves and get ready for debt the path of clearing up and clarifying so that once and for all we would really be better off.
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