In the space of just one week, both Israeli and Palestinian officials have descended on Bosnia -Herzegovina in an attempt to influence officials in Sarajevo ahead of a September vote on Palestinian statehood at the United Nations. Both are counting on Bosnia's vote, and both have an equally strong chance of getting it.
Bosnian Serb wartime General Ratko Mladic reportedly considered taking his own life rather than surrendering to Serbian authorities, but he is certainly not regretting his decision now.
There were several possible scenarios floating around about what might happen when the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic would finally be arrested.
Croatia has long had difficulty accepting the wartime atrocities committed by its forces during the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s. But the recent reaction of the Croatian public to sentences handed down to two retired Croatian generals was out of all proportion.
Turkey's and Russia's diplomatic and financial deployment in the Balkans have provoked a prompt response from the EU, which hopes to remain the main authority in the region. And Brussels indeed has a lot of catching up to do, largely because over the past four years it has lost much of its credibility.
Over the course of the past few months, several high-ranking officials from the Council of Europe have warned that Bosnia-Herzegovina could be suspended from the body due to its failure to launch urgent constitutional reforms.
It is fair to argue that the Bosnian leadership has not earned EU visa liberalization. It is also fair to say that the Bosnian public deserves what it gets from this unstable democracy, insistent on keeping the status quo and voting into office the same nationalist culprits time and again.
