War is preoccupying Europe as it has not done for a long time, and there are not many places where one can observe the martial engravings of history as closely as in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The country is beautiful, poor, divided and a little melancholic. It is in turmoil in the north, where Serbs dominate the Srpska region and some flirt with secession, and it looks enviously to the south, where Croatia basks on the beach next to its neighbour, there, ‘where they cheated their way into the EU,’ as Bosnians sometimes grumble.

But who needs a beach?

Published in F.A.S. and online.
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