In 2025 we marked the thirtieth anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement – quite a milestone. As Bajaga would say – “are we happier, are we wiser,” as always, it is in the eye of the beholder…
In 2025 moreover, as in the previous 30 years, we did not agree on whether only the letter or the spirit of Dayton is more important, whether it is a straitjacket or tailored to fit, whether it only stopped the war or also brought peace, whether Dayton is just the beginning or the maximum…
In 2025 we nevertheless broke records as well… Our cities are at the very top of the list of the most polluted, alongside Lahore and Ghaziabad. In corruption, we are second in Europe. Our organized crime is a European brand with constant expansion. In brain drain, we are at the very top in global competition…
In 2025 we were not particularly excited, and even less disturbed by the fact that police procure minors, that pensioners live worse in nursing homes, that concessionaires and investors poison people with heavy metals, that regulatory plans are drawn by four or at most six eyes while pouring whiskey, that the Clinical Center lacks basic treatment resources even for oncology patients, but has cocaine…
In 2025 it can be said that we were also lucky. The luck lies in the fact that state police agencies could not or were not allowed, regardless, to act according to the law and the order of the BiH Court and apprehend a person previously known to prosecution authorities with initials M.D. who was guarded by heavily armed elite entity forces. Because if they had tried, who knows…
In 2025 we were indeed lucky because we almost derailed from the European path. Deep into injury time, we adopted the Reform Agenda, struggling with its adoption for two years, losing hundreds of millions in the process, leaving us with barely as much if not less time for implementation. But let us be realistic – does anyone expect it to be implemented…
In 2025 we discovered interesting inclinations of our prominent socio-political figures. For instance, the unusual inclination and peculiar versatility of the good-natured man from the people, Nermin Neka Nikšić, also known as the Prime Minister of FBiH, toward the unusual skill of so-called “fixing.” The man, what is difficult for him, in addition to his job, managed to engage in fixing, corresponding with a generous heart as he is with this and that person, suggesting whom to employ, appoint, push forward, arrest, etc. We learned that the OSA director, in addition to his job which he surely has plenty of, does not mind taking someone where needed, not looking at who is who, even those or especially those who are on the wanted list for the most serious crimes…
In 2025 the residents of RS, even those least inclined to fairy tales, realized they live in a kind of Oz. Similar to the wizard from Oz, the wizard from RS enchanted his subjects with his omnipotence through various tricks – passing laws and then repealing them, appointing RS presidents and then dismissing them, elevating coalition partners and then destroying them, appropriating the entity’s budget as his own, not sparing tribute from it to be removed from the black list. It remains only to see whether the wizard from RS will have the same fate as the one from Oz. As we know, the one from Oz was ultimately an exposed fraud who eventually returned by balloon to his Omaha, probably to his old job as a circus performer. Whether the objective public will conclude at the end of the story that this one from RS is also a charlatan and whether he will, in his case, leave by plane rather than balloon to one of his favorite destinations and return to his old job as a petty speculator, we will find out soon, or whether the wizard from RS will be a hereditary category…
In 2025 it remained unclear to us whether there is a judiciary in the country and why not. This naturally did not concern either the chief prosecutor or his deputy, who wholeheartedly exchanged criminal charges against each other. Anyone who made the mistake of reading the EC report was left unclear whether the judiciary is part of organized crime or whether organized crime is integrated into the judiciary. We also learned that undermining the constitutional order, even if it takes place in live TV broadcast, does not necessarily mean it is a criminal act, while disrespecting the decisions of a certain German citizen C.S. certainly is…
In 2025 we were gallant, very much so, nothing was spared, everyone was respected regardless of who and what they are, we did not count the cost, but it is measured in billions. From the notorious Serdar’s, through the obscure and non-existent Viaduct, the price of highway construction work increased by half a billion, and on top of that, we brazenly broke over two billion by avoiding public procurement procedures – without any excessive burden of competitiveness rules…
In 2025 it was confirmed that academician Dragan Dr Čović remained consistent with himself and his struggle for equality and legitimate representation, and this struggle naturally does not exclude favoring his own and family interests and broad-spectrum obstructions, of everything and everywhere – clearly with a smile, swearing by European values and eternal optimism…
In 2025 even the most ardent supporters of the Troika could no longer refuse to accept the obvious, that the difference between SDA and the Troika is impossible to determine even under a microscope in laboratory conditions…
In 2025 we removed any doubt about whether one should go to elections if they are well “organized” – one should not. In our case, instead of Bajaga’s Russian and Kharkov, Gomel and Leningrad, there was a Bulgarian train to Doboj, Zvornik, Bratunac…
In 2025 – Well, there was something for everyone, those who wanted to learn had reasons to, those who wanted to be angry certainly had reasons, and even the depressed did not lack arguments…
In 2025 at the very end of the year, we were left only to wish a happy new 2026 with traditional Bosnian and Herzegovinian toasts: May it not explode and do you know where you’re going!
