“... real compromise is a situation where both sides are dissatisfied with the solution...” Henry Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State

That we live in the age of politics and political is not much of a novelty. Go out and sit in your local cafe. Provided that your local cafe is located somewhere in the countries of the Southeast Europe, the chances are that the people on the table next to you will sip their espresso calmly and discuss the local political scene in a rather heated fashion.

Politics or some of the skills necessary to the practitioners of that mystic art are used daily by pretty much every person on this planet. We negotiate the prices at the green markets, children negotiate the amounts of weekly allowances or “back home and in bed” deadlines with their parents. It had even managed, to some extent at least, to regulate the way we talk, through the concept of political correctness.

Naturally, that men (and women) are political animals – Aristotel’s “zoon politicon” – has been clear for at least 23 centuries. Politics, after all, are useful, as they provide the necessary instruments to reach policy decisions pertinent to the society and solve conflicts and problems in a peaceful manner, acceptable to the majority of citizens in a society. Read more

03.11.2008 The Citizens of Sarajevo (Gradjani Sarajeva) informal group and the Protest.ba Initiative called on the members of Sarajevo City Council, the City Administration and the MPs in the Cantonal Assembly to stop claiming sole ownership over the Vijećnica Building, adding that no decision on the future use of the Vijećnica is possible without prior consultation with the citizens.

30.10.2008 A group of permanent and temporary citizens of Sarajevo submitted yesterday, October 29, a protest letter to the Ministry of Interior of the Canton of Sarajevo and Police Commissioner Himzo Selimović, on the developments during and after the First Sarajevo Queer Festival and the unfortunate events during and after the Festival opening ceremony that continued until the prematurely forced conclusion.

02.06.2008 Miljenko Dereta, Executive Director of Civic Initiatives, comments on the triumph of pro-European parties in Vojvodina provincial elections and has some useful advise for former Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica.

22.02.2008 Last Saturday, February 16, the BORNA – Blogging Committee for Referendum on NATO was created in Zagreb. The Committee gathers individual bloggers active on blog.hr and bloger.hr portals, and on the group portal pollitika.com.