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We are gathered here in the cold of a Bosnian winter to bid farewell to our friend and colleague, Sven Frederiksen. Sven’s warmth as a human being was one of his foremost qualities. We could have done with that warmth today. Sarajevo has seen more than its fair share of sadness as a city. Sven devoted so much of his professional life to reliev [...]

Господине предсједниче, господине градоначелниче, посланици, представници Владе Дl

Transformation means different things to different people. It depends a good deal on one’s vantage point. Southeast Europe has different contours when viewed from Brussels than from say Skopje, or for that matter, from Sofia or from Sarajevo. Today I want to provide a perspective on Balkan transition from an insider point of view. When you see it [...]

Ова земља сада мора предузети хитне кораке да обезбједи повећање броја радних мјест

Година 2003. означила је прекретницу за будућност Босне и Херцеговине. У 2004. години ризикујk

The International Community has been engaged in the returns process for eight years and is now transferring responsibility into the hands of the BiH authorities. Setting up the regional centres in Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Mostar, to coordinate return efforts in the field and monitor reconstruction carried out by the MHRR with the support [...]

Посљедњих мјесеци сам имао прилику да се сретнем са градоначелницима општина из циј

In Brussels last week the political directors of the Peace Implementation Council noted with approval that the BiH Development Strategy, approved by all three prime ministers in early December, has been drawn up through a process of exhaustive consultation with citizens. This is a Made-in-BiH document; it encompasses the main elements of the near- [...]

Rebuilding a country is like rebuilding a house. You have to put a huge amount of effort into things that are necessary but won’t show when the work is over. Solid foundations, naturally. Wiring and plumbing: also essential – and to put these in, you have to take other things out, like walls and windows. There will be weeks of plastering and lay [...]

There has long been a school of thought that derides the idea of peace implementation, of nation building, of democratisation, call it what you will, as the worst sort of international fad, social work and busy bodied do-gooderism – Hackney Council on global scale. It is they say, a hopeless task, beloved of naive idealists, incapable of adapting [...]