Na Balkanu nastaje nova zajednica država
A new community of states in the making in the Balkans

Summary/Abstract: Following the failed referendum in Ireland, major problems with Bulgaria and Romania, the new member states, and an ever growing disagreement in relation to internal organisation of the ‘European twenty-seven’, Brussels treats the issue of enlargement of the European Union to include ‘Western Balkans’ as a second-rate problem. There is an evident ‘enlargement fatigue’ and in their public debates, the European technocrats also cite ‘citizens’ concern’ and ‘the EU absorption capacity’. Research has truly shown that in just two years, the percent of those supporting EU enlargement in countries such as Germany, France and the UK, dropped from 60 to just one third. However, careful observers know that when it comes to states included in the so-called Western Balkans (countries in the territory of former Yugoslavia excluding Slovenia), the seat of the EU has been deploying the strategy of re-connecting them. If the establishment of Kant’s ‘eternal peace’ is at the very core of the concept of the European Union, then it must prove itself capable of establishing such peace, first and foremost in its own territory and Western Balkans is indeed that. This means that the pax Americana, the ‘American peace’ established by US interventions in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, needs to be replaced by an ‘European peace’. Re-composition is under way, and in it Sarajevo is to play an important role. As is the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, thus opening real possibilities for long-term development and prosperity.

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