A resolution adopted by the Croatian parliament argues that Bosnia’s Croats have been denied the full political equality promised by Dayton. Coming weeks after Christian Schmidt’s resignation, it signals that the Dayton settlement is now being challenged well beyond Bosnia itself.

After 30 years, the West’s most ambitious nation-building project is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.

‘Europe has forgotten that it is not discourse but song that shapes humanity; not a tweet but a Kyrie; not opinion but melody bowing to the depth of heritage. In Zagreb and Sinj, a people sang, and in their voices was the memory of a continent that once knew how to bind freedom to form, identity to responsibility, hope to sacrifice.’