Is there and can there be a contemporary Croatian politician who would be at least a little, at least to a minimal extent, at the will of the so-called political Belgrade, this current one, Vučić's? He doesn't have to "love" him, he just has to tolerate him... Left, right, from the government, opposition, liberal, conservative, whatever? Just so that he/she is not looked upon first and foremost as a pair of smelly socks. Alas, I really don't know of such, including, to be honest, even Milorad Pupovac, the only important Croatian political figure born without a vicious (ethno) genetic mutation that Vučić does not forgive.
Come on, it's not like we haven't known for a long time that, when it comes to the variety of the human race called "Croats", Vučić is a person with special emotional needs, he himself admitted that back when Jesus walked the earth, and we wrote about it on this same page. place. But the Croats are not the only problem, although no one can even fire a rifle at them. Is there a contemporary Slovenian politician, if his interests, duties and jobs ever intersected somewhere with "political Belgrade", who was not exposed to ritual contempt? Just remember how Tanja Fajon, a well-intentioned and politically benign social democrat, went through the hot rabbit hole of all kinds of defamation here for years. Admittedly, there is still one "good Slovenian" according to the criteria by which the international political bashibozuk sniffs each other and happily brothers, and that is Janez Janša, but in Slovenia he is alternately nobody and nothing and the Prime Minister, and in both aggregate situations he does not have much time or opportunities to deal with Serbia.
It is less important for today's story, but aren't things the same with "political Sarajevo"? Is there a Bosnian politician from the Federation, especially if he has a "Bosniak" name and, um, sign, without being reduced to the despised Nothing to the right of the Drina? Again, it doesn't matter whether he is from the government or the opposition, secular or crescent, urban or rural, ethnic or civil, with or without a war or post-war history of pre-Drina preconcentrations?
It seems, therefore, that any post-Yugoslav politician - not even a Montenegrin one, bydway - if he does not belong to the "Serbian world" by birth, orientation and actions, can only receive public and official treatment with nausea and gnashing of teeth of a tolerated intruder in Vučić's Serbia. roams the corridors of powerful palaces only because he arrived here as an emissary of slightly more inconvenient political addresses than those in Zagreb and Ljubljana, most often those in Brussels. Because they are, well, officially "Europe" and we are not, but we are in the line of petitioners for admission to that somewhat stiff house, which is hogwash and injustice, and if it were justice, it would be the other way around, or in fact it wouldn't even exist. so because we are not really sure if we need this "Europe" at all, except as a wealthy neighbor from whom we can borrow or simply wait for something here and there when we need it, but with whom we would not share household because we don't really like the house rules that they would like us to follow even though we didn't write them, and it is known that we people are relaxed, so we don't like to follow the house rules that we did write.
And that's how we finally got to the unfortunate Tonino Pizzula. Who?! Yes, if you don't follow Croatian internal politics, you might not have heard of him or you might have forgotten him before you remembered him, and it's not like you'd lose God knows what. A mediocre apparatchik of Račan's and later Milanović's SDP, he held some semi-prominent positions on which he consistently did not leave a mark, he has long been in the deep opposition, but he made a great impression in Brussels, and thus, here, he became - EP rapporteur regarding the (non-existent) progress of Serbia in European integration . Taking on that duty, he made all the noises that are expected from that place (democracy, rule of law, harmonization of laws and practices with the Union... and what else?). However, it was met with outbursts of rage from the official addresses and from their paramedia clones, and Picula was called Ustash and similar epithets. A benign political man without characteristics, neither extreme nor malicious in any way, a leftist in an attempt, a character who would be ideal during socialism President of the inter-municipal conference of the Socialist Union of the Working People of Northern Dalmatia - Ustasha? So is there a limit, is there a bottom?
And someone like Picula should be good news for us because he knows the language, the context, the situation. Eh, naive Pančić! Well, that's exactly why, along with Vučić's untreated problems, they are greeted with so much repulsion: because they know the language, the context, the situation! It's always easier with Ursula and Borel: they know little and are even less interested in where they are and who they are, but every month they don't worry about it intensely on the way to the bank.
