In its foreign policy, Croatia has long turned much of its attention towards neighbouring Bosnia, where it increasingly openly advocates the creation a third, mainly Croat, entity, to supplement the existing Bosniak and Serb-dominated two.
These ambitions appear to be intensifying both in Bosnia and Croatia ahead of the October 7 general election in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The “third entity” question in Bosnia is a key issue for the main Bosnian Croat party, the Bosnian wing of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, and for its ruling sister party in Croatia.
Addressing the European Parliament on Tuesday, Zeljana Zovko, a Croatian MEP for the HDZ, said the final solution for Bosnia and Herzegovina “should be found within the three communities” – meaning Bosnia’s Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks – “and not in EU”.
