On the boil
The politics get messy, even for an old hand
BALKAN folk dances are intricate, lively affairs where a misstep may have dire results. According to the original script written by the region's outside choreographers, the office of the “High Representative” (in effect, the international pro-consul in Bosnia) was to be abolished on June 30th. Its powers of legal intervention would be replaced by those of persuasion, exercised by the parallel post of European Union (EU) representative. Both are held by Christian Schwarz-Schilling, a retired German politician and old Bosnia hand.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “On the boil”
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