Since the beginning of this year, though, a number of things have changed more rapidly than we had dared hope, for there is a functioning government for the whole country, its parliament has got down to work; the EU has decided to reduce the number of EUFOR troops; the issue of what is to become of the High Representative and of the ‘Bo
nn powers’ is again being discussed; and it is to be ho
ped that a way will soon be found to implement police reform, to which the Republika Srpska was, until very recently, resis
...[+++]tant.