Bosnian Castling

It could have been a gratifying day for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). On May 31st, the budget was finally adopted. An opportunity to address previously ignored reforms presented itself. However, this did not happen. The vote on the budget brought the escalating dispute between Zlatko Lagumdzija’s Social Democrats (SDP) and Sulejman Tihic’s Party of Democratic Action (SDA) to the brink.