Since 1995, when the Dayton Peace Accords ended fighting in what is now Bosnia, power has been shared by three main ethnic groups: the Serbs, Croats and Bozniaks. But that leaves many other minority groups, like Jews, Roma, ethnic Albanians or Italians, out of power altogether. John Last reports that this arrangement is one of the major barriers to the country’s EU membership — but opening the constitution risks reigniting ethnic tensions.
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