Nationalists who speak different languages understand each other the best
Declaration on a common language has caused a fiery reaction.
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Those who defend the Declaration and its very idea, believe that it represents the first serious attempt towards understanding and cooperating between the countries that emerged from the breakdown of Yugoslavia.
"The Declaration underlines that differences are being constructed between the existing standards in rigid ideological terms, and it seeks liberalization of orthographic norms."
Professor Enver Kazaz
Eldin Hadzovic
Eldin Hadzovic is a freelance journalist. He reports on post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina for regional and European media and is a regular correspondent for the weekly magazine Novosti in Croatia.
This story was originally written in Serbian.