Bosnia's leaders are "mired in the nationalist logic and talk of the past". The status quo is "unviable", yet no domestic forces can challenge it or influence the country's leaders "to replace their current disputes". Thus a new report to European Union foreign ministers by Olli Rehn, the eu enlargement commissioner, and Javier Solana, its foreign-policy supremo.rnFor two years, Bosnian Serb, Croat and Bosniak (Muslim) leaders have been bogged down in the same old quarrels that have dogged their country ever since the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. They are now threatening to reverse many years of progress. Yet for 18 months, their bickering has been largely ignored by the eu, concerned more over the future of Kosovo and how best to stabilise Serbia.rnNo longer. Miroslav Lajcak, a Slovak diplomat who is in effect the international governor of Bosnia, has been touring the countries responsible for overseeing the Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia in 1995. He is demanding renewed attention to Bosnia, because he fears its self-serving leaders are bringing the country to its knees. A break-up of Bosnia would destabilise the whole region; at worst, it might reignite the Balkan wars.
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